Feature Requests item #1095477, was opened at 2005-01-03 23:24 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by lschiere You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=350235&aid=1095477&group_id=235
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: core Group: None >Status: Closed Resolution: None Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: Marko Simovic (markobarko) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Minimize to system tray - change button? Initial Comment: Just an annoyance really...Can we change the minimize button to minimize the app to the system tray while the close button actually exits the app? Outlook 2003 does it this way and when using both i get confused...lol...either change or make as an option. that would be great!!! What does everyone else think of this? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Luke Schierer (lschiere) Date: 2007-04-20 11:00 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=28833 Originator: NO As we are closing this tracker, please submit any feature request that is still valid to http://developer.pidgin.im. Thanks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Michael Toews (mwtoews) Date: 2006-10-17 21:13 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1458205 A work-around solution to this request is to disable the system tray, which is in the plugins. Once it has been disabled, the close button closes, and exits gaim. +mt ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Laager (rlaager) Date: 2006-10-16 22:02 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=156487 I agree with eperez. I've filed feature requests on other applications to ask that the close button minimize to the system tray. Some people want it each way, and neither is really more "correct" than the other. I personally prefer this option because I minimize to tray more frequently than I quit the application, so I believe it makes sense to optimize for that case. I wish the GNOME HIG would weigh in on this, so that we might get some consistency. (However, Gaim is not a GNOME app and so the HIG is not binding.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Michael Toews (mwtoews) Date: 2006-07-20 01:01 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1458205 I agree with the first comment. It conflicts with basic GUI usability: the big X closes the window (and the program), and the minimize button minimizes the program (yes, good idea about into the system tray). Having the X and minimize do essentially the same thing is annoyingly redundant. Currently the behavior voids these basic GUI principle, and it appears to mimic the behavior of Windows Messenger .. please, I thought that a main purpose of Gaim was that it didn't? I'm thinking that Windows Messenger's behavior is rooted in idiots that run the program, and blindly bat at buttons to try and make it go away, but deep down inside don't want to actually close the program. We aren't idiots. We can do better than this, by actually pressing the buttons to do their intended action. Windows Messenger has it wrong, so please don't copy their close/minimize behavior, and stick to the basic GUI principles that everyone is familiar with. Sorry if this appears as a rant .. I guess it is. +mt ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Eduardo Perez Ureta (eperez) Date: 2005-01-29 12:32 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=60347 I prefer current behavior, because close doesn't mean quit. Close means get rid of this window because I don't want to see it, but it doesn't have to disconnect any account. And I like the minimize button to put the window in the taskbar because sometimes I like it there. Anyway I'm not a usability expert. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=350235&aid=1095477&group_id=235 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Gaim-features mailing list Gaim-features@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gaim-features
