systray icon animation, [was: greetings]

[Cerneels Bart]

2006/10/12, Mark Kretschmann <markey at web.de>:
>
> On Thursday 12 October 2006 09:50, Gianluca wrote:
> > Hello to everyone, first of all I want to give you a big "thank you
> > very much indeed" for GREAT job...
> >
> > amarok is absolutly fantastic and all my friends want try linux
> > because they want amarok! you're the best!
>
> Thank you very much :)
>
> > I have a question for the developpers:
> > it is possible that there will be a "switch control" to configure the
> > che icon in the "systemtray" (i hope that this is the right name). now
> > in the 1.4.3 the icon during the song go to full to empty... and
> > that's ok, but someone don't (doesn't????) like this.
> > so if it is possible can you put a switch "on/off" and "full to
> > empty/empty to full"?
>
> No, we don't really plan to make this optional. We think adding
> "micro-options" like this makes the app cluttered and reduces usability.
> Instead, we try to choose something that works well for us and the
> majority
> of our users.
>
> In this case, we can discuss what the best behavior for the systray icon
> is.
> If others agree with your opinion, we might possibly change it.
>
> Asking the mailing list: What's everyone's opinion regarding the systray
> icon?


Hate it, because Amarok doesn't use it for acctual notifications it wastes
already limited space. I would like to iconify Amarok to the desktop or
"third layer" (think apple's dashboard) and have it act like a miniture
control panel (see my blog post about background
apps<http://commonideas.blogspot.com/2006/03/kde4-backstage.html>).
But as long as we don't have that option, the systray icon is better then
taking up space in the taskbar.

Stecchinio
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/amarok/attachments/20061012/5c66f337/attachment.html>