Closing the window exits the application instead of hiding it

[Felix Zweig]

Binary package hint: rhythmbox

With the new sound indicator applet in Maverick, there's no way to hide the main application window the the notification area. The only way is to enable the status icon.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: rhythmbox 0.13.0git20100819-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-17ck.24~ppa2-generic 2.6.35.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-17ck-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Sep 6 13:41:02 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Beta i386 (20100901.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: rhythmbox

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for your bug report, that's not a bug though but a design decision

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoundMenu#compliance

[Felix Zweig (f.zweig)]

from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoundMenu#compliance:
> A compliant player should also keep playing if you close its window while it is playing [...]

This is currently not the case in rhythmbox, so it is actually is a bug.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported, but feel free to report any other bugs you find.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the bug is a duplicate in any case, closing