Thoughts on the systray II.

[Fred Schaettgen]

On Monday, 25. April 2005 23:48, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I wonder how that should work for Kontact where the mail part and the
> RSS reader part can both show a status icon.

As it's only a single application, it should only have one tray icon IMO. 
Even though there is no technical reason for it, I see each tray icon as an 
application. But when I read articles in akregator and a new mail is coming 
in, I regularly click the kmail tray icon and then wonder for a second where 
akregator has gone when I want to Alt-Tab back to it.
Kontact would have to merge status information from different parts into one 
icon - or it could only display a flag in the icon and show the number of new 
mails and articles etc. in the title, at least when minimzed. 

Fred

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Fred Schaettgen
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