It was really about reproducing the functionality that was available
when Rhythmbox had the icon in the notification area rather than the
indicator applet.

I keep rhythmbox running by closing rather than quitting. It then closes
while the icon remains. I was just used to the notification area
"standard" of toggling show/hide window by clicking on the icon (as in
pidgin, lifera, alarm clock, and rhythmbox before)

Not knowing the reasoning behind moving things from the notification
area to the indicator application, I just feel that the indicator
application loses out by not having a right-click option. The
notification area use cases seam to be click for a quick action (toggle
view state, show available networks) and right-click to configure or
change preferences. By having the icon to show the start of the
notification area you can click on that to change the applet settings
rather than right-clicking anywhere on the applet.

I think the indicator application could be better by having a click and
a right click action. Possibly that could be a click and a double click
action. It could even be that the quick action could be configurable,
e.g. in Rhythmbox it might allow show/hide or play/pause, volume might
be mute/unmute or simple volume change. There is also no tool tip on the
indicator application (but that might be raised as a separate
enhancement)

I agree with the need for consistency but visually the notification area
and indicator application look the same so there is the possibility of
confusion between the two as they currently behave differently.

What might be a compromise for me would be to alway show the icon in the
indicator application like the envelop icon is always shown and then
show rhythmbox would start it if it is not already running as clicking
on Pidgin does under the envelop icon. If we are going for consistency
I'd make it a media icon and allow each media play to have an individual
sub-menu like we have for Evolution, Microblogging and pidgin in the
envelop icon.

I am happy to live with the new change so if you want to mark this as
won't fix or investigate as possible enhancement I am quite happy.

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Rhythmbox cannot be quickly opened from Indicator Applet
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