Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] [patch] music as desktop service

[Peter Robinson <pbrobinson gmail com>]

> > > Christophe (who isn't a big fan of "the close button doesn't really
> > > quit")
> >
> > Ok, so...why is it you feel that way?
> 
> To answer your second mail, I haven't tried the patch yet. What annoys
> me with hiding the window instead of closing it is that you then have to
> remember how each app behave when you click the close button "hmm, so
> this app will really quit when I ask it to quit, so it will stop doing
> whatever it's doing at the moment, this one won't quit so I can safely
> click the quit button if I want to put it in the background, oh, and I
> don't remember what this one does". I'm not sure about the keyboard
> accessibility of the tray applet, once the window is hidden, is it easy
> to get it back to the foreground using the keyboard?
> Speaking of muine, I just remembered what it was doing last time I
> tried, the close button was really quitting muine, but the tray icon had
> a "hide window" menu item. I prefer this behaviour I think.
> 
> Once again, I haven't tried the patch, and I'm only explaining why I
> don't like much overriding the close button behaviour, if most people
> feel it's the right thing to do, I won't go crazy about that ;)

Its a hard one. I tend to agree with Colin because its one of those
apps that tend to be around permanently. This is the behaviour that
similar apps that 'hang around' do. Examples of these are gaim and
gnomemeeting because you need them running for people to contact you.

Pete