GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 632242
drop status icon use
Last modified: 2017-07-31 12:40:29 UTC
(cloned from bug #632000) GNOME 3 won't really support status icons. It seems that Tomboy currently uses a status icon by default. I recommend that the status icon mode should be removed. It should just behave as a single instance app. A "jumplist" like function may be added to the app icon in the GNOME 3 Overview to provide access to notes and tasks. When I launch "Notes" from the GNOME 3 Activities Overview it should just start an application window. This window would ideally show an overview of notes / notebooks or something and offer a way to create a new one. See also: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Design/Guidelines/MessageTray/Compatibility
Jon, the application window you refer to would be our Search All Notes window, so that's no problem. Is there an issue in gnome-shell with the behavior of keeping Tomboy running when no application windows are open?
Also see http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-shell-list/2009-December/msg00148.html for some ideas I've had on adding jumplist-like capability to gnome-shell.
bump: Related to GNOME 3, we should bump up a priority if we're actually planning on taking this for 1.6
bump: What happened to the plans of supporting Jumplists (https://live.gnome.org/Tomboy/RoadMap)? There are already pretty nice mockups for the search and jumplist support: https://live.gnome.org/Tomboy/Whiteboard The code for the status-icon would have to be moved into an add-on, and a gnome-shell integration add-on is needed. I think with Gnome 2.3 the implementation of jump-lists is already pretty finished, isn't it? Therefore one probably just has to change the .desktop file? https://live.gnome.org/ThreePointThree/Features/Jumplists Thanks!
We need someone to write it. Although I think Mac support is a higher priority at the moment; at least for me it is.
The Tomboy team has moved from GNOME Bugzilla to GitHub for bug reports and feature requests: https://github.com/tomboy-notes/tomboy/issues/ Closing this report as NOTGNOME as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping (bug 781054) to keep tasks in one place. Please feel free to transfer this task to GitHub if this task is still valid in a recent Tomboy version. We are sorry for the inconvenience.