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Idea #22036: Unify system tray behaviour (drop-down menus)

bug This idea was marked as implemented the 14 December 11. Available starting Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal.
Written by vectart the 25 Oct 09 at 09:52. Related project: Gnome. Status: Implemented
Rationale
In new Ubuntu Karmic release, system tray has a new type of buttons in tray.
So I found 3 different types of behavoiur after clicking on tray applets.

Here is illustration:

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Selected solution (#2): Notification area
Written by luisjeronimo the 27 Oct 09 at 11:46.
Some can think this is silly, but i think it would be a good solution, that Ubuntu make a new notification area fully costumisable and it should be very intuitive, like you could pass all the icons with one click only.
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Selected solution (#4): Leave Button Style
Written by Breakable the 2 Nov 09 at 20:54.
I like button style more than changing icon background. And it should require less testing for the icons.
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Selected solution (#5): Raise this issue to the Ayatana team
Written by rrnwexec the 5 Nov 09 at 23:31.
The Ayatana project is an effort to make Ubuntu more "human". This thread is a perfect candidate for inclusion. Can someone from the team adopt/nominate it, or can someone here track down an Ayatana member and have them participate in the discussion?
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Selected solution (#7): Set a default but make it configurable
Written by jyaan the 14 Nov 09 at 11:28.
I propose that we settle on one of the styles for a default, but make a GConf key so that it can be changed (without needing to clutter GNOME's settings with more sections). Many GNOME apps use GConf, so this is the standard way to access 'advanced' settings.

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chunknuts (Idea reviewer) wrote on the 25 Oct 09 at 19:31
Wow. Good point!

jensfr wrote on the 25 Oct 09 at 19:39
+1... Never really thought about it, but really a good point, and a great step towards a professional looking OS

Malaria wrote on the 25 Oct 09 at 20:18
It's a paper cut.

Go launchpad and open a bug :)

Shady3D wrote on the 26 Oct 09 at 05:53
it can't be done because of 2 reasons:
1. the colored ones are buttons and buttons have 3 states or more, but sound became a notification in the notification area applet, so do you see the difference.
2. gnome-shell already changed the way that gnome-panel works or in another way there is a new notification system that work better than the current one.

vectart wrote on the 26 Oct 09 at 21:10
@jensfr
Thanks :-)
It's just my interface experience.

@Malaria
I think, it's feature request.
Here is many programs in Gnome written by different technologies. They are not buggy - it's just different implementations.

@Shady3D
I don't believe you.
Look around - 21th century. All can be done!

Haku wrote on the 26 Oct 09 at 22:41
"All can be done!"

Nice. :-)

jaenz wrote on the 29 Oct 09 at 16:10
great point, needs some love!

shinkanzen wrote on the 29 Oct 09 at 22:39
i like the third picture, pushed button, the best.

shinkanzen wrote on the 29 Oct 09 at 22:39
21st century +1

vectart wrote on the 31 Oct 09 at 17:28
@shinkanzen
I also agree with you.

Pushed button decide problem with colors of text and icon.
They are still keeped and no need to change it.

amaranth (Ubuntu developer) wrote on the 31 Oct 09 at 20:39
The indicator applet and indicator-session-applet look like they do because they are applets, the clock looks like it does because it is a button, and the rest are notification area icons.

We can make the clock and the applets look the same but the panel does not control the notification area applets.

The only way to make this look consistent is to make the applets look the same as the notification area icons which is the worst of the three.

Shady3D wrote on the 2 Nov 09 at 06:04
@all_who_disagree 21st centure doesn't mean that we have time waste on something that already going to change, you can change this idea to anticipate this problem in gnome-shell but not in the current gnome panel. its non sense.

snostorm wrote on the 2 Nov 09 at 14:11
We may not be able to _force_ notification icons to comply with the way the other icons work, but can't we make the default ones comply, and then put out a "strong recommendation" that third-party ones do?

Hawke wrote on the 2 Nov 09 at 15:29
@amaranth: I actually think that the “it’s good”/solution #1 is the worst of the three, because the icon becomes nearly impossible to see with the default theme. The clock’s is the best, and the volume control is so-so.

yman wrote on the 2 Nov 09 at 17:52
This is especially ugly when using transparent panels, and is true for the "Show Desktop Button" and "Window List" applets as well. It's been annoying me forever. Also, for people who don't like Gnome-shell's interface, will they be able to get a traditional desktop layout? If so, will that be through Gnome-panel or something else?

yman wrote on the 2 Nov 09 at 19:53
Another annoyance is that a lot of panel applets don't use the same background as the panel they're in.

ndroftheline wrote on the 3 Nov 09 at 22:52
Implementation of this fix should DEFINITELY be in the next form of Gnome's panel, but it should also be fixed in the current form. I'm sure there's away to accomplish this without resorting to "wait on the next service pack" - a rather windows-centric mentality.

I think the button idea is the best one; using colors could become dangerous if the user implements a different theme or transparency.

vectart wrote on the 5 Nov 09 at 09:31
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/22175/
It's good idea too and very relevant to my idea.

Please, vote for this - I hope developers implement that ideas together.

Afroman10496 wrote on the 7 Nov 09 at 00:32
Solution 3 makes no sense...

Tuxoid wrote on the 12 Nov 09 at 22:41
Solution 1, couldn't agree more. Oddly enough, I never noticed this, besides the clock.

The way they look now is a little... differing. They're all of same kind of thing; they are all status icons. Keeping with the current style is like suggesting they are all very unique, and fall into different categories of operation. That can be quite confusing to new users.

xavierpij wrote on the 14 Nov 09 at 20:11
Solution #7: If we start adding configurations for changing between a button or a highlight, we should add one to choose the exact gradient under the menu bar, and one to select the distance in pixels between the three parts of the Ubuntu logo.
Besides, if it's not user-accessible, what is it useful for?

vectart wrote on the 16 Nov 09 at 17:27
And where is my solution?!
People want the changes, but some people was delete it.

It's not humanity and system still ugly in the tray.
Fucking lazy developers.

cheesehead (Brainstorm admin) wrote on the 14 Dec 11 at 00:17
Uniform behavior was introduced with Unity in 11.04.


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