Thoughts on the systray II.

[George Staikos]

On Friday 15 April 2005 12:46, Lubos Lunak wrote:
>  Hello,
>
>  this is more or less a followup to
> http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=110841124008784&w=2 , which died
> out (because of a certain person being a bit busy, I guess :-/ ). I'd like
> to revive and continue with it, and present also some "show me the code".
>
>  To quickly summarize (see the link above for full details), the things I
> suggested were:
> 1) not using systray for apps minimizing, using another taskbar instead,
> which may in the end even look a lot like a systray from the user's point
> of view. As you'll see below this in practice mainly means replacing
> KSystemTray and the underlying protocol. People in general seemed(?) to
> like this part, so see below about the code.
> 2) converting applet-like systray apps to real applets. Aaron had some
> issues with this because of having bad nightmares about XEmbed, so this
> needs more discussion, the remaining complains can be basically solved by
> saying "so that needs fixing/improving" if my memory serves me well.

   Discussions about these two at xdevconf seemed to show that everyone there 
interested agreed.

> 4) not using the systray for daemons, quick access and such stuff, instead
> simply not having any GUI for those, or using applets/whatever. I'm not
> actually sure what was the opinion on this.

  What do you suggest for KWallet?  It's important to know that a wallet is 
open.  Likewise for the print manager...

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