[Panel-devel] Systray (was Re: Drag'n'drop everything)

[Aaron J. Seigo]

hey Niels, good to see you here =)

On Wednesday 17 August 2005 08:25, Niels Voll wrote:
> On one of my desktops I currently have 21 little icons squished into the
> systray. That's getting rather ugly and slows me down when hunting for
> the volume control :)

yes, one of the things we're working on is getting rid of most of the icons 
that are not appropriate. we already have icon hiding in 3.4 (via the 
Configure Systray entry in the applet handle menu), and we will be able to do 
one better in kde4 as we will finally be able to know the state of the icon 
(e.g. whether it's ok to hide it or not). letting a user scatter these icons 
everywhere (4 here, 5 there, etc) won't actually address the problem of 
having 20 icons.

> And if you are as wildly successful in attracting developers for these
> kinds of applets as I think you will be, systrays everywhere may become
> really overcrowded and ugly rather sooner than later.

they already are overcrowded =(

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