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[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Chow Loong Jin wrote on 15/02/11 17:05:
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> On Tuesday 08,February,2011 09:36 PM, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
>>
>> A window's close button should close the window. Anything else the
>> program does should aim for the least overall distraction.
> 
> Please correct me if I am wrong, but does this not mean that the
> original behaviour of having the media players (Banshee and Rhythmbox)
> close their windows, but remain running in the background, ready to
> resume at a moment's notice, is the correct behaviour after all?

I don't claim to be an expert on when a media player should unload
itself. What I do claim is that hardly anyone else is an expert on that
topic either. :-) It's something best worked out by the Banshee and
Rhythmbox developers.

> It seems to me that the original behaviour (as opposed to the current
> behaviour) closes the window and yields the least overall distraction,
> thus complying with the statement you made. The user does not need to
> know that the media player is actually still running in the background.
> The "Quit" action does create a bit of confusion in that case though.

It does. That much, at least, is easily solved: rename it to "Close".
<http://design.canonical.com/2011/03/quit/>

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