I think that some people are possibly using tray-icon and panel-applet interchangeably, or confusing the two. I agree with Lionel - I wouldn't mind seeing a panel-applet for GTG, although I mostly just leave it open, along with GnoTime, on one workspace.
Dunc 2009/7/15 Lionel Dricot <[email protected]> > Tomboy does not minimize to tray. It uses an applet. > > And if you want to argue about UI, I believe you would better not want to > take skype as an example ;-) > > > Pidgin and skype are NOT GNOME application at all. We specially want GTG > to not be another "thing" with lot of stuff everywhere. Real GNOME > application that use the notification area as a tray are considered as a > bug. Next Rhythmbox, for example, will now disable it by defautl. > > I will write more on my blog to justify that but, in the meantime, there's > no way that I will ever write one single line of code to add something as > ugly as a "tray". > > But as soon as we have plugin support (which is coming soon), you will be > able to write your tray plugin. > > Yes, as you can see, that's a sensible point for me ;-) > > Lionel > > > > Lots of applications minimise to the tray (pidgin, tomboy, transmission, > > skype etc etc), and I think it would be really handy if GTG could too. > > It is a pain to have to re-open it every time you want to add a note, > > but it's also a pain to have it open all the time taking up space in > > your task bar when you're not really using it. A tray icon is the > > perfect solution. > > > > Ben > > > > Lionel Dricot wrote: > >> We should really put that in bold on the wiki because it looks like a > >> common request. > >> > >> There is no tray icon in GNOME. Tray icon is a Windows concept which is > >> one of the worst UI concept ever invented. GNOME HIG made it really > >> clear > >> : notification area should be used only for temporary notification. > >> > >> So GTG will never have a permanent tray icon. That's it. But we hope to > >> provide soon a GNOME applet, segphault is working on it and it will be > >> really really nice :-) > >> > >> > >> > >>> GTG is really cool. Tasque sucks(in my opinion). I was wondering, how > >>> about a tray icon for gtg, which will stay there and I can quickly > >>> bring > >>> it up whenever I want clicking on the icon or using a hot-key. That > >>> saves a lot of time. Meanwhile I'm firing gtg through Alt-F2 and typing > >>> 'gtg'. > >>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Mailing list: > >>> https://launchpad.net/~gtg-user<https://launchpad.net/%7Egtg-user> > >>> Post to : [email protected] > >>> Unsubscribe : > >>> https://launchpad.net/~gtg-user<https://launchpad.net/%7Egtg-user> > >>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Mailing list: > >> https://launchpad.net/~gtg-user<https://launchpad.net/%7Egtg-user> > >> Post to : [email protected] > >> Unsubscribe : > >> https://launchpad.net/~gtg-user<https://launchpad.net/%7Egtg-user> > >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >> > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: > https://launchpad.net/~gtg-user<https://launchpad.net/%7Egtg-user> > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : > https://launchpad.net/~gtg-user<https://launchpad.net/%7Egtg-user> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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