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Bug 661811 - no way to hide that application in the background
no way to hide that application in the background
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 658043
Product: empathy
Classification: Core
Component: General
3.2.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: empathy-maint
empathy-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-10-14 21:39 UTC by Lars Schotte
Modified: 2011-10-18 15:34 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description Lars Schotte 2011-10-14 21:39:18 UTC 
hi folks,

i am starting to like this Empathy now, as long as it has started to work.

now the problem is that i would like to have the opportunity to hide it completely and let it run in background, because it is more fun to write through the bubbles and do something more at the same time (like watching some educational youtube videos).

my idea is simply a checkbox where i could enable minimizing to tray and the tray icon as a whole. i figured that there are trays on gnome 3.2 as well, so that idea should not conflict with any design goals. even more when the empathy integration is really penetrant through gnome 3.2.
Comment 1 Guillaume Desmottes 2011-10-17 07:56:05 UTC 
No there is no tray icon any more in 3.2.  But since GNOME 3.2 you can stay connected (and so chat using Shell's chat bubble) without having Emapthy running at all. Just set your presence to online using Shell's user menu.

Or am I miss understanding your issue?
Comment 2 Lars Schotte 2011-10-17 17:57:07 UTC 
well, thats OK, i noticed that in fallback mode there actually is a tray icon for empathy.

in gnome-shell i see tray icons for example of claws-mail as well. and that is working too, but it took me some time to notice, that this dock is working like under macosx. so what i wanted to do is to "minimize" it.

so this could be considered as solved. the only problem is, when you "minimize" the window to the dock, you dont have an information where the contact list disappeared. and it can be restored by (new window) what doesnt describe it.

there should be something like "contact list" entry added, so that you can access it directly from the dock by right clicking on the "empathy" icon.

also when you are marked as available in gnome-shell, "empathy" could be started in the background and be put in the dock as "minimized".

thanks
Comment 3 Guillaume Desmottes 2011-10-18 15:34:13 UTC 
I see; closing as a dup of bug #658043 then.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 658043 ***