[Usability] Rhythmbox tray icon - again

[Colin Walters <walters verbum org>]

Hi,

A number of people have complained about the recent change to Rhythmbox
that removed the ability to completely hide the window (remove it from
tasklist, etc) via the tray icon.  Seth Nickell made the suggestion that
Rhythmbox pop up a menu on left click, which made a lot of sense to me,
since I thought it would be what most people used the tray icon for.

It turns out that more people than I thought use the "minimize to tray"
feature.  I don't personally use it, and I thought it was a little
crack, so I was just going to ignore the requests to add it back.  

However, then someone pointed out to me that the GNOME CD player does
this "minimize to tray" thing too.  Since there's precendent, that made
me rethink things.  So this raises some questions:

1) Is this feature total crack or not?  One concern - could it
potentially be confusing to newbies who have accidentally hidden then
window and then don't know how to get it back?

2) If it's not crack, is it a good idea to do this on left click?

3) Also if it's not crack, shouldn't we have some sort of standard
terminology for this?  "Minimize to tray" doesn't sound good at all, and
"Hide window" seems a little too weak.

Having posed the above questions, let me give my feelings:

1) It's not (total) crack, at least for applications like music players
which you use for a few seconds to pick a song and then want out of your
hair.

2) I think it's a bad idea to do this on left click.  It should happen
via a context menu where the user has some clue about what's going on. 
Also, I think it would be good to change the tray icon somehow to let
the user know the window is hidden.

3) For lack of a better term, I would go with "[Hide/Show] Window".