I just discovered the "indicator applet" because after weeks of annoying behaviour of Rythmbox, it became *seriously* annoying to fill a bug and read all the comments. I have no "indicator applet". Apparently, this is optional, and this is cool with me.
Still, until 5 minutes ago, I had in the notification area the icons of the apps currently executing, that is: - Keyboard preferences - Pidgin - Tomboy - Skype - Network - Rhythmbox And guess what? All those icons open a context menu using the right- click... All but Rhythmbox for whatever usability reason (at first, I thought it was a bug that would be resolved a few days after upgrading to lucid). I really do understand the reasons for usability changes, even if I disagree with this one... But then, someone decided putting windows buttons to the left would give Ubuntu a cooler look... Still, I would have liked some way to revert to the original behaviour, because, when in the Notification Area, the Rhythmbox icon is not behaving like expected (isn't there some basic UI rule about behaving as expected ?) For the Lucid left-handed-mac-like buttons, using a Vista theme on top of Emerald/Compiz corrected the mistake, so I as far as I am concerned, I'm happy with the Ubuntu UI team experimenting with alien looking usability gizmos. But I've yet to find a way to revert the behavior for Rhythmbox... But it doesn't end here... I tried the Indicator Applet, which seemed promising, but all it seems to do is to have me use Evolution (I use Thunderbird, so it ends as another annoying window on my screen...), and kidnap the Rhythmbox and Sound icons from the notification area... Annoyed by the fact I had now two zones where my active icons went, I just removed the Indicator Applet, and guess what ? The kidnapped icons didn't go back to notification area... And Rhythmbox was still playing without anyway for me to bring the app window back. I am now trying to repair this, but I felt I had to share this moment of WTF with you... All this because of a uncustomizable forced usability feature (to be compared with Thunderbird's Migration Assistant to offer the choice between old and new features). Believe it or not, I replaced my monitor yesterday, and spend the evening configuring both NVidia and XOrg, booting and rebooting just to have it play cool with Ubuntu on the new resolution. And even with that, somehow, I feel more frustrated *now* with Rhythmbox... -- Rhythmbox cannot be quickly opened from Indicator Applet https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/539426 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
