Comment 9 for bug 584119

I must admit to being in favour as well. I'm also using onboard on a Joggler (right now, in fact), and this behaviour is really ticking me off!

Logically, at least to me, the tray icon "owns" the window. The icon always exists, but the window doesn't. The window needs the icon, not the other way round. The icon is for showing and hiding the window, therefore the icon shouldn't disappear when the window gets closed.

I'm not sure it's entirely useful to try and make comparisons with other applications--there is no analogue I can think of for what onboard and other on screen keyboards do. They're a software implementation of a hardware device that is generally, under traditional desktop conventions, expected to always be present. Admittedly, it's been a few years since I last regularly used a PC, but I seem to remember that they won't even boot without a keyboard present!

So it seems completely barmy that it should be so easy to accidentally remove the virtual keyboard!

Sam