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["Lionel Dricot" <ploum@xxxxxxxxx>]

Tomboy does not minimize to tray. It uses an applet.

And if you want to argue about UI, I believe you would better not want to
take skype as an example ;-)


Pidgin and skype are NOT GNOME application at all. We specially want GTG
to not be another "thing" with lot of stuff everywhere. Real GNOME
application that use the notification area as a tray are considered as a
bug. Next Rhythmbox, for example, will now disable it by defautl.

I will write more on my blog to justify that but, in the meantime, there's
no way that I will ever write one single line of code to add something as
ugly as a "tray".

But as soon as we have plugin support (which is coming soon), you will be
able to write your tray plugin.

Yes, as you can see, that's a sensible point for me ;-)

Lionel


> Lots of applications minimise to the tray (pidgin, tomboy, transmission,
> skype etc etc), and I think it would be really handy if GTG could too.
> It is a pain to have to re-open it every time you want to add a note,
> but it's also a pain to have it open all the time taking up space in
> your task bar when you're not really using it. A tray icon is the
> perfect solution.
>
> Ben
>
> Lionel Dricot wrote:
>> We should really put that in bold on the wiki because it looks like a
>> common request.
>>
>> There is no tray icon in GNOME. Tray icon is a Windows concept which is
>> one of the worst UI concept ever invented. GNOME HIG made it really
>> clear
>> : notification area should be used only for temporary notification.
>>
>> So GTG will never have a permanent tray icon. That's it. But we hope to
>> provide soon a GNOME applet, segphault is working on it and it will be
>> really really nice :-)
>>
>>
>>
>>> GTG is really cool. Tasque sucks(in my opinion). I was wondering, how
>>> about a tray icon for gtg, which will stay there and I can quickly
>>> bring
>>> it up whenever I want clicking on the icon or using a hot-key. That
>>> saves a lot of time. Meanwhile I'm firing gtg through Alt-F2 and typing
>>> 'gtg'.
>>>
>>>
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