RE: Minimise an app to an applet?

["Poletti, Don" <don poletti comverse-in com>]

GnomeICU does this.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Barnfather [mailto:plb clanger9 demon co uk]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 2:22 PM
> To: Gnome-List
> Subject: Minimise an app to an applet?
> 
> 
> I was just pondering the usual minimise/restore behaviour of most
> GUIs. I'm wondering if there's some improvement can be made here..?
> 
> When an app is minimised, apart from appearing on the Tasklist, it
> doesn't seem to be able to do anything useful, apart from maybe
> changing it's window title. Windoze appears to have a similar
> limitation. Is there an example of a GUI that does something more
> useful with it's minimised apps?
> 
> How feasable would it be, say, for a minimsed app to turn 
> into an applet?
> That way the user could still interact in a (limited) way with the app
> without needing to restore it.
> e.g: It could display a little progress bar. Or maybe even a 
> "Stop" button.
> 
> Do you think this would make GNOME a better UI?
> Can it be done with the existing API's?
> How about "embedding" applets into the Tasklist?
> 
> I guess where I'm coming from is that there seems to be an unnatural
> differentiation on the Panel area between "Starting a program" (Menu),
> "Finding a running program" (Tasklist) and "Interacting with a program
> that may or may not be running" (Applets e.g. the XMMS applet).
> 
> If I'm posting uninformed drivel, I apologise; please move on, there's
> nothing to see here. ;-)
> OTOH, if there's mileage here, it might be interesting to see what the
> GNOME UI folks have to say...
> 
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