Metacity should have a hide button (for MessagingMenu apps)

[Alejandro Vidal]

Binary package hint: metacity

[ Karmic / Ambiance ]

Currently metacity layout have only button for minimize, maximize and close an application.

In Ubuntu some applications like Empathy, Gwibber and Evolution are minimized to the Messaging Menu instead of being closed when we click the 'close' button.

Sadly, this make the window workflow inconsistent because we, the users, expect an application to close on clicking the close button.

For those applications there should be a 'hide' button to indicate that they will go to the system tray (like Pino, Deluge, Messagin Menu ones, etc.). It could be represented with a dot and a different background colour.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Mar 10 20:26:19 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
Package: metacity 1:2.28.0-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=es_CL.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-16.53-generic
SourcePackage: metacity
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-16-generic x86_64