Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Rhythmbox Tray Icon Usability & Minor Changes

["Peter Robinson" <pbrobinson gmail com>]

> > First of all, the Tray Icon Functionality. Have you ever seen the tray
> > icon in Banshee? It's awesome. Not only does it show the current
> > playing song + the album icon in a tooltip by hovering over, but it
> > also allows you to change songs just by using the scrollwheel over the
> > icon (the best feature EVER). Last but not least, it uses the original
> > Banshee icon and not some generic "music" icon as it happens with
> > Rhythmbox.
>
> As others have mentioned, the current SVN (and so the upcoming release)
> displays the cover art in the tooltip and song-change notification.
>
> Currently using the scrollwheel over RB's tray icon changes the
> application volume. We could change it to be "switch tracks" if the
> general consensus is that doing that is better. Switching tracks is
> probably a lot more common than changing the volume.

Given that you can change the volume by scrolling when the mouse is
hovered over the volume applet I think that doing tracks when over the
RB icon would be better.

Peter