GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 632000
drop status icon use
Last modified: 2015-05-08 11:42:30 UTC
GNOME 3 won't really support status icons. It seems that gnote 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
Copied upstream to Tomboy bug #632242, will discuss there.
Created attachment 177703 [details] [review] Fix for the bug. This patch removes status icon. With it applied, Search All Notes window is used as main window, when not in panel applet mode.
Removing the tray icon you just remove something to everybody not using GNOME shell. The best approach is to only do that if GNOME-shell is detected. Or something. Given that GNOME-shell does not have an applet mechanism either, this is a bit of a huge regression. Just my 0.02$
Just FYI, Tomboy will be moving the status icon to an optional add-in. We might even move it out-of-process...actually I'm planning to do a pretty big overhaul of Tomboy's startup sequence and lifetime management. Hoping to work on it soon.
Any new update on this? Almost out of time for 3.0.
(In reply to comment #5) > Any new update on this? Almost out of time for 3.0. I have plans to improve the patch to make this a configurable feature. However, I plan to take on this only in GTK 3 version of Gnote, which is not yet complete. Most likely this won't be finished by GNOME 3.0 release.
Oh, that's unfortunate. Why would it need to be configurable?
Removing [gnome3-important] from whiteboard, gnote is not under release team umbrella.
This problem has been fixed in the development version. The fix will be available in the next major software release. Thank you for your bug report.
(In reply to comment #7) > Oh, that's unfortunate. Why would it need to be configurable? Because there are people not using Gnome-shell. Or Gnome at all. Or me that dislike having the main window open while still wanting to have the list of notes... (even though it is horribly painful to use the message-tray) Dropping the status icon, given the lack of applet support, is a signifcant loss in functionality for Gnote. The current situation is a decent compromise until somebody figure out how to do it with shell...
Hmm, the status-icon was one of the main reason why i added gnote to fedora's default mate desktop installation. So, removing the status-icon is really a step back .