Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] minimize to the system tray

[Alex Jones <alex weej com>]

On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 12:55 -0700, amestris spira wrote:
>     can you guys add that rhythmbox minimizes to the system tray when is closed like banshee or amarok in the next version please?, is just annoying that rhythmbox doesn`t do that by default.
Rhythmbox is, for all intents and purposes, a single window application.

Pidgin, for example, is not. It has a buddy list and then zero or more individual chat windows. It would be madness to close the whole application just for closing the buddy list.

The "Notification Area" was never really intended for hiding applications away, and there's certainly no concept of it in Window Manager-land, which is why it makes it difficult to decide what is best. This is merely the other side of the argument. I personally am sitting on the fence. :)

Let's discuss!