Re: [Muine] "Small mode"

[Jorn Baayen <jbaayen gnome org>]

On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 12:56 +0100, iain wrote:
> I know this was a really old message, but I was going through the
> archives:
> 
> > So I ask- what is missing from the tray icon? What do people miss? 
> > What do people want to see?
> 
> The reason I would use a small mode rather than a tray icon is that the
> tray icon tells me nothing at a glance. To see anything about the song
> that is playing I need to move my mouse over the tray icon and wait for
> the tooltip to pop up, thus distracting me from what I was doing before
> hand. With a small mode I can set it neatly in the corner and can glance
> to find out the details (and more details than are currently available
> in the tray-icon's tooltip).
> 
> Other things are more convenient access to the play and volume buttons.

I understand.  Good gdesklets and gnotifylets might do this job,
though ..


Jorn