Comment 8 for bug 584119

I realize I'm already outnumbered :), but for the record I'm in favor of keeping onboard running when hitting close if the panel icon is visible. Only slightly in favor however, I am still ok with how it currently works.

Assuming a tray icon is visible, I believe 'Quit' doesn't need to or even shouldn't be easy to reach. I usually don't ever want to exit onboard because I would lose, if only temporarily, an essential input device. I hit the close button only by accident (outside of development) and I believe having 'Quit' only in the panel menu would occasionally safe me from having to hunt for a launcher. I don't have a special launcher because onboard either autostarts on login or I run it from a terminal.

Then, somehow I'm still _expecting_ applications with icons in the panel to stick around when hitting close. This could be remnants of my Windows conditioning, but I've looked around for Ubuntu's policy and the closest I could find is
https://lists.launchpad.net/ayatana/msg02146.html, where sabdfl appears to support leaving some apps, presumably apps providing services when minimized, running.

Onboard may not provide something resembling a service when minimized right now, but it might be, if only barely, if/when auto showing/hiding gets implemented
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/onboard/+bug/443986.
That would most likely require having onboard running and rule out a launcher-only solution.