Comment 25 for bug 391056
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| Cyberkilla (cyberkilla04uk-deactivatedaccount) wrote | #25 |
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@Felipe Morales: The idea is that the applications that have a tray icon will hide it when there is nothing to notify you about. Unfortunately, that doesn't happen in many cases. It seems to be the stance of GNOME that they will not hide any third-party sins. If your icon is annoying, change it, or face a backlash from users... Their philosophy doesn't seem to work though; there are tons of awful tray icons out there!
For me, this problem is further aggravated by GNOME using the Notification Area to host the Volume, Battery and Network icons. In Vista, these are shown next to the tray, but they aren't really part of it (afaik). Instead, they can be toggled on/off.
The only way you can hide the GNOME volume/network icons is to kill the process.
@François Ingelrest: That's good to know. ;-)
From my own experience, most icons look fine when gnome-panel is set to 24px high. Any bigger or smaller and some of the icons behave oddly.
Some will scale up smoothly. Some will scale up, but become blurred. Some won't change size at all.
As long as the default dimensions of gnome-panel are used, it will probably be okay.