[Gaim-devel] Tray Menu's proposal

[Mark D. <ma...@ki...>]

Ok, I've got a proposal thingy...  can we change the tray icon menus for linux
and windows to make them
1) uniform and 
2) more useful

I've taken screen shots of gaim in linux and windows, and aim in windows, both
online and offline, and put them at http://www.kingant.net/oscar/gaim/traymenus/

I like Rob's Linux tray icon, for the most part.  There are a few small
changes I would make:
Possibly change "Quit" to "Exit."  I like Quit better.  I'm not sure what most
other applications do.

Remove "About Gaim."  It's not really that useful.  If people really want to
read stuff about gaim they can just open the blist and go to Help->About. 
This isn't really something you'd be reading a few times a day...

Add an icon for "Mute Sounds."  It just looks lonely compared to the Accounts
and Preferences options.

Add a "New Message..." option when you're signed on which opens the "Send IM
to who?" dialog window.

And then for the windows menu, I think it would be best if it were the same as
the Linux menu, with breaks in the same places.

Uh, so I'm proposing that the tray icon menu's be changed to:
--------------
New Message...
Away->
Signoff
--------------
Mute Sounds
Accounts...
Preferences...
--------------
Quit
--------------

Comments?  Anyone?  What does everyone else think?
-Mark

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