"Hide in System Tray" and Plasma Active

[Marco Martin]

On Tuesday 10 April 2012, Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
> 
> 2. We only show specific icons, and we require applications to remove any
> "Hide in Tray" options via HIG.
> - Pro: Easier solution for us, since if someone disregards the guideline,
> it's "their problem" and we don't have to care about it
> - Cons:
>   - If a systray icon really makes sense for a particular application, we
> have to either make an exception or they just can't have it
>   - Legacy applications may still be completely hidden

applications should never really put anything in the systemtray (we were at 
some point thinking of breaking it by default even on the desktop), some still 
do but on active makes even less sense, there must be a really good reason why 
the panel state should be given to anybody

i also note that in general bangarang still has a completely desktop ui that 
doesn't fit that much, it was known that it was going to need work.

in general actual traditional systray icons (the old xembed ones) aren't 
supported at all and will never be technically possible to putthem there, the 
icons that use thestatusnotifier item protocol as the protocol states, the 
host may or may not decide to represent them, so shouldn't rely on an icon 
being actually visible.
in the case of bangarang was explicitly hidden because only the items of 
category "hardware, system service" and "communications" are shown, and only 
when in active or notifying state. icons of applications category are always 
hidden now (they were hidden in response to another bug report iirc)

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Marco Martin