"Hide in System Tray" and Plasma Active

[Thomas Pfeiffer]

On Tuesday 10 April 2012 15:06:53 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
> Okay, so this is what I take from your replies (and what I support 100%):
> - We keep the tray as it currently is in PA
> - I write an HIG which tells devs to never ever use a systray icon on PA,
> let alone hide the whole application there.
> - We come up with a way to display information in a readable way in the task
> switcher
> - All kinds of notifications / alerts are displayed via the notification
> system. If developers need something which the notification system can't
> do, then the notification system has to be expanded.

I've written the HIG now. As always, comments are welcome:

http://community.kde.org/Plasma/Active/Development/ActiveHIG/Systray

I have put "Use Thumbnail to display information" in there for now. If that's 
not technically possible, we have to come up with some other method here.

Cheers,
Thomas