Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: indicator-applet
1) Ubuntu Jaunty Beta
2) indicator-applet: (the latest version from the Jaunty Beta repos)
Installed: 0.1.4-0ubuntu1
Candidate: 0.1.4-0ubuntu1
Version table:
*** 0.1.4-0ubuntu1 0
500 http://ch.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
3) When I removed the new indicator-applet because it's not useful for
me now, I expected pidgin (that had been all alone in the indicator
applet) to move to its traditional place in the notification area.
4) Pidgin "disappeared" because its option "Show system tray icon: Always" was
not activated. This had been reasonable, of course, when the indicator-applet
was present. But it's not a good default behaviour when the applet is removed.
I admit that I did not have the idea to snoop around in the pidgin preferences
myself... I thought that the applet was the new way in which the "tray icons"
were displayed.
My suggestion: If the user removes the applet, give him a list of
programs that the applet has gotten to know before, with checkboxes.
Whatever is checked gets "moved" to the place it used to be in previous
releases.
I understand that this traditional place is not perfectly appropriate
according to some official usability guide (Andrew Starr-Bochicchio's
comment in Bug 346159). But well, one single icon in a separate tray,
that's not better, and I bet I'm not the only one who does not have
fifteen applications in there. Let the user choose, and help him a
little.
In Bug 346159 the discussion touched the subject, but was kind of
poisoned. Let's not repeat that here.
** Affects: indicator-applet (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Missing: mechanism that "moves" things to the traditional notification area
when indicator-applet is removed
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/355329
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Bug description:
Binary package hint: indicator-applet
1) Ubuntu Jaunty Beta
2) indicator-applet: (the latest version from the Jaunty Beta repos)
Installed: 0.1.4-0ubuntu1
Candidate: 0.1.4-0ubuntu1
Version table:
*** 0.1.4-0ubuntu1 0
500 http://ch.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
3) When I removed the new indicator-applet because it's not useful for me now,
I expected pidgin (that had been all alone in the indicator applet) to move to
its traditional place in the notification area.
4) Pidgin "disappeared" because its option "Show system tray icon: Always" was
not activated. This had been reasonable, of course, when the indicator-applet
was present. But it's not a good default behaviour when the applet is removed.
I admit that I did not have the idea to snoop around in the pidgin preferences
myself... I thought that the applet was the new way in which the "tray icons"
were displayed.
My suggestion: If the user removes the applet, give him a list of programs that
the applet has gotten to know before, with checkboxes. Whatever is checked gets
"moved" to the place it used to be in previous releases.
I understand that this traditional place is not perfectly appropriate according
to some official usability guide (Andrew Starr-Bochicchio's comment in Bug
346159). But well, one single icon in a separate tray, that's not better, and I
bet I'm not the only one who does not have fifteen applications in there. Let
the user choose, and help him a little.
In Bug 346159 the discussion touched the subject, but was kind of poisoned.
Let's not repeat that here.
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