Thoughts on the systray II.

[Lubos Lunak]

On Monday 18 of April 2005 21:56, Anders Lund wrote:
> Friday 15 April 2005 18:46 skrev Lubos Lunak:
> > 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".
>
> For me, and i bet for several others running a similar setup, one important
> aspect of systray apps are that they are always visible, which the taskbar
> isn't. For any app that displays state information that i'm interrested in
> in the icon, it's important that it is visible.

 I fail to see what does the fact that you configured you desktop so that your 
taskbar is not visible and systray is have to do with this.

>
> Some of those icons are lots of the time just the application icon (kopete,
> kwalletmanager, noatun for example) so if they were applets,

 Nobody says these should be applets. Applets are something that lives only as 
a part the panel. Kopete etc. have their mainwindow, they're part 1) of my 
proposal. Only things like kxkb, klipper and similar are 2) and I'd want them 
to become applets.

> they would 
> easily end up looking just like a launch button. An other bad aspect of
> applets versus systray app (as things are now) is that a systray app takes
> up less space with my setup (32px buttons, 16px systray icons).

 Not again.

> So for me the systray is very friendly because it allows me to know for sure
> that each icon is not a launch button, and they take up little space.
>
>
> IMO, a replacement for the systray needs to take these things into
> consideration.
>
> -anders

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