Was there ever a discussion on the Gnome list about this? The difference between panel applets and notification area icons is really irrelevant to this discussion.
The point is that apps have an "iconified" functionality that is fundamentally different from "closed" and "minimized" functionality, and that there is no standard way to get the app into this state from the window itself, resulting in abuse of the standard window management buttons. -- Shrinking to notification area should have its own title bar button https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/124326 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs