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Re: Unexpected close functionality

 

I don't like the idea of having an extra button only for apps that close to
the notification area, if that's what you mean.

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 11:41 PM, Vishnoo <drkvi-a@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 12:17 +0100, David Siegel 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. They're wrong,
> > it's broken, let's fix it.
> >
> > David
>
> Empathy upstream seems to prefer it.Yes.
>
> But reading comments from RB upstream :
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=537868
> It seems they aernt in favor either. Just looks like it got forgotten
> and no one has gotten around to fixing it.
>
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Conscious User <conscioususer@xxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Just because other programs are doing it doesnt make the functionality
> > >> correct. Why cant the minimise button be the one that minimises to the
> > >> notification area? Its how its done with Windows media player from
> what
> > >> I remember too.
> > >
> > > But then you are replacing an unexpected functionality with *another*
> > > unexpected functionality... I know I would be surprised in seeing that
> > > the program went to the tray instead of the taskbar...
> > >
>
> For instances where the function is just closing to the tray , We could
> use a different button instead of using the "red" close.
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Vish
>
>
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