Comment 58 for bug 38512

Il giorno lun, 30/06/2008 alle 07.46 +0000, Sebastien Bacher ha scritto:
>
> some comments though:
> - the notification area is not made to have applications staying there
> - consistancy is good, but do you have many applications not closing
> when you close those? that's rather pidgin and the reboot
> notifications which should be changed if they are not consistant in
> the default installation
> - seems that users will not agree on that so the best way is probably
> to have a plugin available to change the setting, that's where recent
> comments are going
>

Sebastian: if there will be an option for setting this, then I am
perfectly fine. Nobody explained this for months and the impression I
got is that this was not ever going to be adjusted.

Please don't say we are spamming. I am not the kind of guy that believes
there is an universal "truly correct behaviour" for an user interface.
It's a matter of habit, so if you want to change this particular
convention for the ubuntu desktop, I will be glad to change my habits as
soon as there is consistency.

For now, however, if you can name another ubuntu application (possibly
part of the default desktop) that behaves as rhythmbox, I will take note
of that. For now, the bug seems to be in rhythmbox.

If you (intended as the ubuntu developers community) want to "fix" every
other application, please do so, but let us know, perhaps by just
writing an e-mail to other developers, making everybody aware of this
new trend in the usage of icons in the notification area so they'll
start respecting it. I seriously put in doubt there's agreement on what
the right behavior is, but at least in ubuntu some should be found.

Not caring about consistency in such well-exposed elements of the
interface is, in my opinion, not a viable option expecially if things
are so trivial to fix. When I teach people how to use ubuntu, it should
be easy for me to explain what the notification area is for, by giving
examples. Pidgin and rhythmbox are the obvious candidates, and they
behave differently. This is uncomfortable.

However, as I said, I will no longer care about this issue, since I am
fine with the planned option or plugin, and I am fine with the plugin
being in my home directory right now. God bless python (but I am a
theoretician, so I will deny having said this :)).

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