Re: [Muine] [UI CHANGES 6/6] desrt's tray icon patch (as found in ubuntu)

[Joachim Beckers <joachim beckers gmail com>]

On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 10:04 +0200, Jorn Baayen wrote:
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> The tray icon menu provides all functionality needed to do basic
> playback management: Play/pause, skipping songs, and selecting
> songs/albums to play. One does not need to pop up the main window to
> perform these tasks. Therefore the primary mouse button should pop up
> the thing that is most important, namely the menu. Not pop up the main
> window which is unnecessary for most tasks.

I agree to some extent. The current "left button shows a menu" approach
is cool, but it has some drawbacks.

The most obvious one is that showing Muine's main window has to be done
with the middle button. Some people don't have this button (ok, there's
emulation, but still...) and it's a little obscure.

Also, the left and right button now have the same function. This is not
really a problem, but it sure looks weird.

> Using the middle mouse button to play/pause is *rather* obscure and that
> at the very least has to be removed. 

See my point above, it's not more obscure that showing/hiding the main
window. Just using the middle mouse button on a trayicon *for any
reason* seems obscure to me.

> I think adding a Quit menu item is also a bad idea. The menu only
> contains frequently performed actions, not every random feature in the
> app, to keep the menu small and oversee-able. "Quit" is used exactly
> once per session, and I therefore don't think it belongs there. (And
> especially not when the main window pops up on button1)

+1

As a general side note:
Who's still using a one button mouse? I can't think of anyone, except
maybe mac users, (or are those "mighty mice" also two button?). I think
we should more or less target the largest group of users with Muine, and
as such, including features for two button mice seems ok to me.

Actually, this seems like a good case for adding both kinds of
functionality, and a gconf key for the user to specify which type he/she
wants.

Joachim