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[Remco <remco47@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 16:38, Luke Benstead <kazade@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In this situation
> minimize to tray is:
>
> a.) Effectively the same thing
> b.) A pain to work with because now there are two possible places that
> your window could be minimized to

Plus, a tray (or app-indicator) icon:

c.) Has no standard behaviour: the menu item that would restore the
window could be located anywhere in the menu
d.) Is a tiny icon without label or tooltip

By standardizing around a panel applet with dock-like behaviour, we
will only need application indicators for regular applications that
want to list a few quick actions in a menu, and obviously for system
services.

The Messaging Menu wouldn't have to be a place where applications live
either. Evolution happily uses both the window list and the Messaging
Menu. So, Empathy could show two windows in its entry on the dock: the
contact list and the conversations window.

-- 
Remco