System tray - more information

[George Staikos]

On Wednesday 09 April 2003 16:24, Stefan Gehn wrote:
> On Mittwoch April 9 2003 22:01, George Staikos wrote:
> >    In effect, we have this behaviour:
> >
> >   1) If the window is docked/hidden in the tray, then show it on the
> > present desktop, on top, with the focus.
> >   2) If the window is NOT docked/hidden in the tray:
> >        2a) If it is on another desktop, move to the top, give the focus
> > and EITHER move to that desktop, OR bring it to this desktop.
> >        2b) If it is on this desktop, if it is obscured in any way, bring
> > it to the top and give it the focus.
> >        2c)  if it is on this desktop and NOT obscured in any way (even if
> > it doesn't have the focus), hide it.
> >
> >    That seems reasonable to me.  Is there anything wrong with that?
>
> Yes, I want to hide the window when it's on my screen (i.e. even if it's
> hidden under tenthousands of other windows), not bring it to front. If you
> want to make it top, click the taskbar-button of that window but don't
> abuse the systray for it. I don't like the idea of removing taskbar-buttons
> for windows with a systray-icon either.

   Hm if the taskbar isn't present, then it's impossible to know that it is 
not hidden though.  It could be a bit confusing.

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George Staikos
 ...  Yes, my KDE talk at Real World Linux was cancelled on me.