Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] tray icon behaviour

[Jonathan Matthew <jonathan d14n org>]

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Juan Antonio Osorio
<jaosorior gmail com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I don't kow if this topic has been talked about before (I couldn't find it
> in the archive), but before
> Gnome 3, when closing the rhythmbox gtk window, the program was kept running
> with te tray icon,
> that behaviour changed, and now if I close the application window, it closes
> rhythmbox entirely. Is
> that the desired behaviour or are there plans to change that? If there are
> plans to change that, I
> would like to start contributing to the project with that.

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.