Re: [Ayatana] Unexpected close functionality

[Marc Deslauriers <marc.deslauriers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 22:10 +1000, Jonathan Matthew wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 9:17 PM, David Siegel
> <david.siegel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I witnessed this bug biting users many times over the 11 hours of user
> > testing we conducted over the past couple weeks. User opens
> > Rhythmbox... and it appears as if nothing has happened. Empathy
> > sometimes has the same problem. Both of these issues have been
> > reported as paper cuts for a while, but there is reluctance to change
> > the behavior because upstream considers it a feature.
> 
> Er.. pardon?  Where did I say that?
> 
> The only reason I'm reluctant to change anything in this area is that
> every time I do, people line up to yell at me about it.
> 
> -jonathan
> (rhythmbox maintainer)

Although I don't do it myself, some people may choose to have rhythmbox
open automatically with their session by using the options in
System/Preferences/Startup Applications/Options. When this is done, it
could be expected behaviour to have rhythmbox start in the notification
area. This could explain the users lining up to scream. :)

Marc.