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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Systray Usability
From:       Esben Mose Hansen <kde () mosehansen ! dk>
Date:       2005-02-06 8:43:31
Message-ID: 200502060942.42941.kde () mosehansen ! dk
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On Sunday 06 February 2005 08:34, Benjamin Meyer wrote:
> On Sunday 06 February 2005 7:27 am, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > On Saturday 05 February 2005 09:58, Benjamin Meyer wrote:
> > > the app doesn't really quit sometimes.  Even in OSX when you select
> > > File/Quit it always quits the application vs when you close the main
> > > window it doesn't exit the application (like the system tray).
> >
> > File/Quit always quits the app (including the systray). closing the
> > window doesn't.
>
> Ha I forgot about that insanity.  File/Quit quits, but clicking on the [X]
> in the main window's make it go to the system tray.  Don't you think that
> it is horrible consistency that sometimes [X] in the main window means
> close, but othertimes means quit?

Just an idea I've had for some time, but never saw mentioned: Why not, for 
dockable application, have a new icon beside the close button, and a menu 
entry, which is "dock to systray"? 

It *is* confusing that "Close window" sometimes means "Close window+keep 
docked".

Otherwise, perhaps showing the systray icon always would make the metaphor 
consistent. The application  would no longer be docking in systray, but just 
happen to have two "windows".

Just my 0.02€

-- 
regards. Esben
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