#14760: [Deskbar] Do not show Tracker when no Tracker windows are open
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Reporter: NullAndVoid | Owner: jscipione
Type: enhancement | Status: closed
Priority: normal | Milestone: Unscheduled
Component: Applications/Deskbar | Version: R1/Development
Resolution: invalid | Keywords:
Blocked By: | Blocking: 14761
Has a Patch: 0 | Platform: All
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Comment (by pulkomandy):
I find the "app with no window" entry in DeskBar quite useless. Sure, the
app is running, and then what? You can't quit it, you can't make it open a
window, you can't do anything besides killing it using a secret poweruser
shortcut. What's the point?
However, I think we can make this useful. Besides just "show the desktop",
this would make sense if the app could provide a menu to show when
clicking the deskbar item. When using Tracker in non-spacial mode, a "new
window" entry could be there. I could imagine MediaPlayer running
windowless and having "next song", "previous song", etc reachable from the
DeskBar. MacOS allows apps with no window for a similar reason: you can
still reach their menubar; and also they used to have no concept of
minimized windows so that was the only way to unclutter your desktop back
then. But we don't have these problems.
So currently, we allow no-window apps but no way to interact with them
(killing doesn't count as interaction). That's indeed not right and
confusing to users.
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Ticket URL: <https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/14760#comment:19>
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