Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Suggestions for Rhythmbox

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>]

On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 04:10:47PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> Muine I think actually has a nice approach here in that you can think of
> the applet (well, notification icon) as the primary interface to it; the
> window is just like a dialog for selecting music, not an application. We
> could take that approach for Rhythmbox too - have left click on the
> applet pop up a menu, and a "Select music" entry that allows you to
> navigate.  Rhythmbox is more complex than Muine though, so it doesn't
> fit quite as well.  But doing things that way might be better than the
> current mismash of notification icon/small mode/full mode.

It would be nice if applets and apps use the same gui loop.  So you could
minimize to an applet rather than using the notification icon.  Then truly
we could use the applet as the primary interface.

sri