Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] New feature: Close rhythmbox window and keep playing

[Jonathan Matthew <jonathan d14n org>]

On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 03:17:24PM -0300, Zeh Ortigoza wrote:
> Hello
>
> I'm new on this list so here a small presentation of me, I'm a
> software engineer at Intel OTC, some open source projects that I had
> worked: EFL, Tizen and now working on Android.
>
> I just had moved to Linux Arch and now I'm using rhythmbox and I have
> a missing feature to me, the ability to close the rhythmbox window and
> keep listen to my musics. I read that this feature was remove because
> Gnome and others window managers have some applets to show music
> player state(MPRIS applets).
>
> So my idea is bring back this behavior without adding a new icon to
> notification area, just keep playing music and when user open again
> rhythmbox it only 'restore' the window.
>
> Any objection?

I don't think this is a good idea at all.  I don't see why some applications
should be special, and I don't see why users should have to guess which ones
stay running when you close the window and which ones don't.

If you want rhythmbox to keep running, just don't close the window.  If you
find it annoying to have the window open, that's a window management problem
that should be solved by your window manager.