[Panel-devel] Drag'n'drop everything

[Pierre D.]

Le Samedi 13 Août 2005 15:16, Vince Negri a écrit :
> Pierre D. wrote:
> >>>Another idea with drag and drop : I suppose we will still have a systray
> >>>in KDE4, won't we ?
> >>>If yes, then it'd be great to be able to drag and drop any window to the
> >>>systray...
> >>
> >>What would be the effect of dragging a Konqueror window that shows a
> >>folder into the systray?
> >
> > You'd have that window in your systray, without having it in your
> > taskbar...
>
> That's what I was afraid of ;-)
>
> Personally, (and I admit this is my personal taste) I don't like it when
> the systray changes from being a status/notification area into a sort of
> "second taskbar" or even worse "second launcher."  The horrors that
> existed on many OEM Windows 2000 PCs, where at least 5cm
> of space next to the clock was occupied with *static* icons!
>
> Anything that goes into the systray should imho be something with a
> dynamic icon that gives you information, not just a minimised app/document.
>
> In your xchat example, could KDE monitor the xchat window and make the
> icon flash when it updated? Then you would have the systray "feel" - but
> you can see how this gets hard for generic app/document windows.
That's possible using composite