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trayicon is not activated by default #46

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
It was a bit irritating to me, that an application like this comes with by
default disabled trayicon and I first have to activate it. (I think most
users would like to have it on by default.)

Original issue reported on code.google.com by ad...@az2000.de on 2 Mar 2007 at 5:23

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Sorry, but this is done by design :)
I actually changed this behavior between specto 0.1 and 0.2 so that the tray 
icon
(actually, a "status" icon) was not there at all times, but only to notify the 
user.
Otherwise, this is just cluttering the "notification area" for nothing, and the 
first
thing you know, you end up with a big mess like Windows.

Quote from the Human Interface Guidelines:
"Warning. The utility of the notification area decreases rapidly when more than 
about
four icons are always present. For this reason, icons that appear only 
temporarily in
response to events are preferable."
http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/desktop-notification-area.html

However, I left the previous behavior as an option that can easily be activated 
in
the preferences. I strongly believe that in any case, newbie users would prefer 
the
current behavior, because when they click the "close" button of an application, 
they
should expect it to actually *close*.

Original comment by nekoh...@gmail.com on 2 Mar 2007 at 5:41