Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] tray icon behaviour

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Sat, 2011-07-02 at 19:50 -0400, oleksandr korneta wrote:
> > On Tue, 24 May 2011 10:41:49 +1000, Jonathan Matthew <jonathan d14n org> wrote
> 
> > This change is intentional, for two reasons: it was mostly a
> > workaround for poor task switching, which has been fixed in GNOME 3,
> > or needs to be fixed harder if it's still a problem; and I think it
> > makes even less sense for the persistent representation of the
> > application itself (rather than just some of its state) to be a
> > message tray icon as opposed to a status icon.
> >
> > The status icon plugin has been removed, because between the GNOME 3
> > message tray and Ubuntu's sound menu I don't think it has a place on
> > current desktops and I'm not interested in maintaining it, but if
> > someone wanted to revive it (removing the notification code,
> > obviously) and continue to look after it, I'd probably be okay with
> > that.
> >
> 
> It would be very nice if somebody picked up the project

And by project you mean the status icon plugin I guess. Because I'm
pretty certain Jonathan is still interested in supporting Rhythmbox.

>  and continued to 
> maintain it. It just, with all respect Jonathan, fortunately the pool of 
> linux desktops is not limited by gnome, unity or kde for that sake. I've 
> been a loyal user of RH/Fedora since 2003 and gnome was never my desktop 
> of choice, but nevertheless I was happy to enjoy the gtk2 software. I 
> was very upset to find that there is no tray icon support in rhythmbox, 
> when I switched to F15 couple weeks ago. This is just to say that there 
> is still a strong need in this project.