[kde-linux] order of System Tray icons

[Jerome Yuzyk]

On Thursday, December 15, 2011 07:35:04 PM Duncan <1i5t5.duncan at cox.net> 
wrote:
> Jerome Yuzyk posted on Thu, 15 Dec 2011 10:27:48 -0700 as excerpted:
> > On Thursday, December 15, 2011 08:02:28 AM Pablo Sanchez
> > 
> > <pablo at blueoakdb.com> wrote:
> >> On 12/15/2011 07:58 AM, Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
> >> > What determines the order of icons in the System Tray?
> >> 
> >> From what I've observed, it's when the process places itself in the
> >> tray.
> >> 
> >> Perhaps if you ran a script which serially started the System Tray
> >> items, you'd get a consistent placement.
> > 
> > I start most of these things by hand in the same order. Even though I
> > start KMail as one of the last trayable items, it nudges itself into
> > the first or second position usually. I don't start the volume
> > control at all, and it puts itself in the last position. And on it
> > goes... All of the items are visible full-time.
> 
> I replied earlier and you mention some points I brought up so you might
> have seen it, or not, since it explains what you describe.
> 
> The in-tray order should be the reverse of the tray-icon request order.
> That is, the last thing to start gets the first icon slot, bumping all
> the others down a notch.  That explains kmail being in the first icon
> slot when it started last.

Ohhh it's a stack, not a queue! I'll have to consider that next time.