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[Tony Knott <tony_knott_666@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Currently, in Karmic I have three applications in the indicator-applet: empathy,
evolution and gwibber. The close button behavior is different for each one:

1) In empathy, the close button only hides the window.

2) In gwibber, the close button closes the gui, but the daemon stays open.

3) In evolution, the program is completely closed.

The solution I personally use to keep things acceptably consistent is to minimize
instead of closing. However, this doesn't bother me because I use a dock and
therefore the apps are minimized to its launchers. I can imagine that someone
who uses the regular Gnome window list would be very annoyed by three non-used
apps in the taskbar all the time.

In fact, even for me the current situation is sub-optimal because it's redundant:
I'd prefer launch the three apps only through the indicator-applet and remove their
launchers from my dock.

In my opinion, the best option would be to implement close-to-tray in all three,
but as far as I know evolution devs are against it and patching things directly
against the upstream direction is not a good idea in the long run.

Nevertheless, despite which behavior is the correct one, I firmly believe that
it should be consistent among all three.
 		 	   		  
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