thoughts on the systray

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Sunday 13 February 2005 23:58, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Saturday 12 February 2005 05:59, Owen Taylor wrote:
> >   1. Come up with a new, good notification API (probably using
> > DBUS) that meets the requirements of a KDE UI design and a GNOME UI
> > design.
>
> it's more than notification. if we look at what people actually use
> the system tray for, notification is one of the things its used for.
> if we say "only notification, every one else go elsewhere" we will
> end up with the same problems, only not in the system tray. instead,
> we'll have a bunch of applets on the panel taking up even more space
> and committing the exact same abuses. not a brilliant solution.
>
> we must, IMHO, allow for more than notification in the system tray,
> while setting out some basic guidelines that eliminate things like
> "using the system tray as a means to keep your app running and
> accessible even with no windows showing".

It's funny to see that you want to eliminate the functionality which was 
the most requested functionality of the KMail applet, i.e. hide KMail 
if the applet is clicked. Or did I misunderstand what you want to 
eliminate?

Regards,
Ingo
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