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[Duncan Lock <dunc@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think that some people are possibly using tray-icon and panel-applet
interchangeably, or confusing the two. I agree with Lionel - I wouldn't mind
seeing a panel-applet for GTG, although I mostly just leave it open, along
with GnoTime, on one workspace.

Dunc

2009/7/15 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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