Thoughts on the systray II.

Olivier Goffart ogoffart at kde.org
Mon Apr 25 21:36:27 BST 2005


Le Lundi 25 Avril 2005 20:46, Michael Pyne a écrit :
> On Monday 25 April 2005 10:45 am, Lubos Lunak wrote:
> > - Since the icon is not handled by the application but by the applet, the
> > application doesn't have any direct control over it.
>
> How would this work with e.g. juk's systray icon?  juk shows its state in
> the systray, so it needs to be able to switch the icon for starters. 

This is not really a problem, as you can simply modify the main window icon to 
reflect the state (and so the state is shown even in the task bar)

This is quite unusual to to this, but i don't see a reason against.

> In  addition, it uses a runtime-generated icon as well.  I believe it also
> has a special action if you middle-mouse click on the icon, but I'm not as
> worried about that.  I'd very much like for the first two points I noted to
> not break though.

I hope there will be a solution for that.

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