GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 131012
Download Manager should hide when clicking on system tray icon
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
When clicking the download manager icon in the system tray, the download manager should hide, if it is visible and be shown if it is hidden. This is the same behaviour as Gaim, liferea and Rhythmbox show it. Currently it is only possible to hide the download manager by clicking the Close Symbol of the window manager.
Fixed in cvs, thanks for your feedback.
I think we should consider reverting this change. I know seth has expressed some reservations about this behavior and I'm not convinced that its at all good for usability. The notification icon is suppose to represent a temporary downloader object. Similar to the file manager anytime you click on it, it should present the downloader. This is analogous to how clicking on an already open folder in nautilus will present the folder (not close it). We are breaking consistency with this established mode of operation and simply doing this because other apps are seems suspect to me.
I'm going to reopen this for further consideration, and I apologize for not commenting earlier xan. Its also worth noting that the other apps that exhibit this behavior are not core desktop apps so we should not feel the need to follow their behavior for the sake of consistency.
More than behaving the same way other apps do I find this useful to do the following: - click on tray icon to see how downloads are going - click again, without moving mouse, to hide the dialog and continue with whatever I was doing. With the old behaviour you need to move to the close button in the dialog and click it to do the same. Not a big deal, but it's a useful feature IMHO. That being said, I'm willing to be convinced to kill it to achieve usability greatness.
> With the old behaviour you need to move to the close button in the > dialog and click it to do the same. Not a big deal, but it's a useful > feature IMHO. That being said, I'm willing to be convinced to kill it > to achieve usability greatness. We already have an interface element specifically designed for showing and hiding a window as such, its the window list applet. For your example why not leave the window always "open" and show and hide from the window list? The notification area is meant to hold temporary or very important desktop objects, its not meant to be another window list.
http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/draft_hig_new/desktop-notification-area.html#desktop-notification-or-applet Not to mention we are violating the HIG here too: "Double-click or Space key should perform the icon's default action. Normally this should open a window with relevant data, for example"
Good point and I felt single click weird myself too. I think we need to revert this.
Well, we were violating the HIG before this patch anyway, so let's revert and make double click show the window.
I was convinced we used 2 clicks before, though I'm prolly on crack ;)
Was this reverted ?
Yes it was reverted. http://cvs.gnome.org/bonsai/cvsquery.cgi?branch=&dir=epiphany&who=xan&date=explicit&mindate=2004-01-31%2019:48&maxdate=2004-01-31%2019:50
Yes, it was. We don't have the double click thing (I don't think we ever had) because that needs changes in the egg code.
fixed in cvs