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KDAB / Charm

The Cross-Platform Time Tracker
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minimize to systray icon #274

Open mplb opened 8 years ago

mplb commented 8 years ago

Please bring back this feature. I do not want this long running program distracting me in the "Alt+Tab" dialog and permanently cluttering my taskbar.

I'm running Charm 1.11.1 under MATE on CentOS 7.

TheOneRing commented 8 years ago

The dialogs are meant to be closed and the main app can still be minimized to system tray.

mplb commented 8 years ago

Your reply is cryptic and does not fix the problem: minimizing to systray icon is no longer available, and it should.

frankosterfeld commented 8 years ago

I guess the new behavior is still confusing, as the event and tasks editors can be left open like before and as people are used to, but being dialogs instead of mainwindows in their own right, they prevent minimization of the main window. So this will need fixing. I think it's time to do a step back and think about how the UI should work on the various platforms, probably something for bjoern's EDU time..

frankosterfeld commented 8 years ago

Reopening to remind us that there's a usability issue.

mplb commented 8 years ago

My use case is pretty much at the other end of the spectrum: Charm is pretty much "fire and forget" at the start of each morning/afternoon, and only occasionally do I need to bring up any of its windows/dialogs to change task codes (usually less than twice per week), stop for the day, or generate and submit the weekly report.

I have now understood what @TheOneRing wrote: closing the Time Tracker window (either by clicking its top-right close "cross" button or pressing ctrl+w or alt+f4) doesn't equate to quitting the program, but to minimizing to systray as I requested. Indeed I am confused by this new(?) behavior, as closing the last visible window of a program usually also means quitting that program. I would prefer that a menu entry somewhere in the main window reminded me that closing (ctrl+w or alt+f4) and quitting (ctrl+q) are two different things. In addition to that, it would be nice to have the old systray icon behavior back: left clicking the systray icon would toggle on/off the main window visibility (it brings up a hidden window, but it currently doesn't close a visible window)

So, sign me up for any usability tests you might want to carry out.