use "close" animation when sending to the notification area

[David Prieto]

Most apps, such as Deluge and Pidgin, use the open / close animation when their interface is shown / sent to the notification area.

Rhythmbox and Transmission, however, use the minimise animation when the UI is hidden, and the create one when it is shown, which breaks consistency not only with other apps but also with itself.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug. What window manager do you use? How do you send it to the notification area? What do you call "close animation"?

[David Prieto (frandavid100-gmail)]

Thanks for your quick reply. I'm using Compiz, but it happens with Metacity too. I send it to the NA by clicking the NA RB icon. And I'm following Compiz's terminology here, but in Metacity "close animation" is what the window does when you press the close button (it just disappears) and "minimise animation" is what it does when you press the minimise button (it shows a black rectangle travelling to the taskbar or, in this case, to the NA).

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Using the close animation seems to be wrong, the window is minimized, marking unconfirming for now, should probably be discussed upstream we don't want to divert from them there

[David Prieto (frandavid100-gmail)]

I've just opened this bug upstream: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=464304

If minimise is the right animation to use it should be used when showing the UI again, I reckon. I have no clear preference for close over minimise, but a *proper* way to do it should be decided and specified somewhere for other apps to follow.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for sending it on bugzilla

[Hew (hew)]

Transmission displays the same behaviour, as discussed at bug 194628

[Hew (hew)]

Charles, that was an insanely fast fix for Transmission, thanks! Marking fix committed for transmission (Ubuntu) as the fix exists upstream (r7112).

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package transmission - 1.40-0ubuntu1

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transmission (1.40-0ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low

  * New upstream release (LP: #302672)
    - Tracker communication uses fewer resources
    - More accurate bandwidth limits
    - Reduce disk fragmentation by preallocating files (LP: #287726)
    - Stability, security and performance improvements to the RPC /
      Web UI server (closes LP: #290423)
    - Support compression when serving Web UI and RPC responses
    - Simplify the RPC whitelist
    - Fix bug that prevented handshakes with encrypted BitComet peers
    - Fix 1.3x bug that could re-download some data unnecessarily
      (LP: #295040)
    - Option to automatically update the blocklist weekly
    - Added off-hour bandwidth scheduling
    - Simplify file/priority selection in the details dialog
    - Fix a couple of crashes
    - New / updated translations
    - Don't inhibit hibernation by default (LP: #292929)
    - Use "close" animation when sending to notification area (LP: #130811)
    - Fix resize problems (LP: #269872)
    - Support "--version" option when launching from command line
      (LP: #292011)
    - Correctly parse announce URLs that have leading or trailing
      spaces (LP: #262411)
    - Display an error when "Open Torrent" fails (LP: #281463)
  * Dropped 10_fix_crasher_from_upstream.dpatch: Fix is in this
    upstream release.
  * debian/control: Don't just build-depend on libcurl-dev, which is
    a virtual package.

 -- Chris Coulson <email address hidden> Fri, 28 Nov 2008 15:33:48 +0000