Re: [Evolution] evolution systray

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 09:32 -0500, Christian wrote: 
> On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 21:53 +0100, Calum Benson wrote: 
> > On 14 Aug 2008, at 17:10, tim wrote
> > > i want to say my hat's off to you guys and all you do.  i have an idea
> > > for the next update of evolution...
> > > could you make it so when i close it the program still runs in the
> > > systray?  i like deluge because it minimizes to the systray and pidgin
> > > for the same reason.  even rhythmbox too.  everything runs great on  
> > > the
> > > program; that's just a feature i am looking forward to
> > Note that minimising to system tray (at least by using the standard  
> > minimise or close buttons) is a behaviour rather frowned upon by  
> > GNOME's usability folks, however :)
> > Minimise buttons should minimise, and close buttons should close.  If  
> > you want to add a button that does something else, then fine, do that  
> > and call it something else.  But please don't make the minimise or  
> > close buttons do things they're not supposed to... 
> An option to set what the close button does (close/minimize) is all it
> takes. 

-1 Options bad.  

<aside>This is one [of the many] reason GNOME is far more productive an
environment than KDE.  More options == more code == more effort.<aside>

Close closes, minamize minamizes.  The systray is gone or reworked in
GNOME 3 anyway.

> Several programs have that option both on Linux and Windows. If
> you want to follow the advice of the usability crowd don't enable this
> option.
> I'm using alltray and have edited the menu to open Evo in the tray (or
> is it called notification area these days?) using alltray.
> Personally I do not not care who frowns of what as long as it works for
> me! :)

If you use something like a dock (GNOME-Do, etc...) then minimize may be
pretty much what your asking for [since you aren't closing the app
anyway].


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