On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 09:32 -0500, Christian wrote: > On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 21:53 +0100, Calum Benson wrote: > > On 14 Aug 2008, at 17:10, tim wrote > > > i want to say my hat's off to you guys and all you do. i have an idea > > > for the next update of evolution... > > > could you make it so when i close it the program still runs in the > > > systray? i like deluge because it minimizes to the systray and pidgin > > > for the same reason. even rhythmbox too. everything runs great on > > > the > > > program; that's just a feature i am looking forward to > > Note that minimising to system tray (at least by using the standard > > minimise or close buttons) is a behaviour rather frowned upon by > > GNOME's usability folks, however :) > > Minimise buttons should minimise, and close buttons should close. If > > you want to add a button that does something else, then fine, do that > > and call it something else. But please don't make the minimise or > > close buttons do things they're not supposed to... > An option to set what the close button does (close/minimize) is all it > takes.
-1 Options bad. <aside>This is one [of the many] reason GNOME is far more productive an environment than KDE. More options == more code == more effort.<aside> Close closes, minamize minamizes. The systray is gone or reworked in GNOME 3 anyway. > Several programs have that option both on Linux and Windows. If > you want to follow the advice of the usability crowd don't enable this > option. > I'm using alltray and have edited the menu to open Evo in the tray (or > is it called notification area these days?) using alltray. > Personally I do not not care who frowns of what as long as it works for > me! :) If you use something like a dock (GNOME-Do, etc...) then minimize may be pretty much what your asking for [since you aren't closing the app anyway]. -- openSUSE w/GNOME <http://www.opensuse.org/en/> Linux for human beings who need to get work done. _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
