"Hide in System Tray" and Plasma Active

[Marco Martin]

On Tuesday 10 April 2012, Fania Bremmer wrote:
> 
> For me this is a question of the purpose of the systray and the purpose
> of the task switcher. Currently every running application is shown as a
> thumbnail in the taskswitcher, which is fine. The systray has always
> been discussed to keep it tidy and clean, without cluttering it up,
> which makes sense as well.
> 
> So for me the question is: in which cases would an (active) application
> need some sort of icon highlight to awaken interest to the user? Would
> it be in the thumbnail in the task switcher? Would it be in some sort of
> global notification dialog?

i think notifications

> So in case of bangarang: why would you need the icon in the systray? The
> user notices that the app is running via the thumbnail in the
> taskswitcher (aka peek area :-) .  He can open and close the app there.
> What else is nedded?
> 

bangarang can be minimized in the systray for a desktop use: making it play a 
list of mp3s being completely in the background, without cluttering the screen 
or the taskbar. use case that is perfectly valind there, but i think not on 
mobile.


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Marco Martin