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Change the default value for the "Show system tray icon: always/never/new messages" preference to be "new messages" I think this is good, and it should take care of http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=244433 Why should closing an application minimize it to the system tray? Closing an application should close it and minimizing it should minimize it to the taskbar. I didn't see any strong objections when we talked about it on the mailing list. I think we should leave everything else that we talked about as-is.

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