[Panel-devel] Systray

[Georges A.K.]

If I understand right, you basically want the show button to popup the
icons in a seperate window, rather than having then uncollapse ? If
so, I'm not so sure which one is better.

Georges.

On 8/18/05, Jeremy Farrance <jfarrance at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> Hi folks !
> 
> I'm "just a user" and you might have already discussed this, but what if
> when 
> the Systray becomes too full, say with more than five icons (user 
> configurable), it automatically truncates into an icon itself which the user
> 
> can simply click on and have the contents popup, slide up, materialize or 
> whatever ? Alerts could automatically popup from the Systray icon when one
> of 
> the items in the Systray wan'ts to alert you of something.
> 
> I think this is simple, easy for me as a user to understand and appreciate,
> 
> probably a bit old fashioned but it would solve the issue of having icons
> all 
> over the place and I'd like to bet you guys can make it very nice little 
> graphical 'featurette' with Plasma. :)
> 
> What do you think ?
> 
> PS: I guess this doesn't address how you deal with permanent
> monitoring/status 
> type icons you might wan't to see all the time (perhaps a Systray that
> simply 
> truncates itself, leaving icons you don't want truncated outside an icon
> that 
> indicates that there is "more"... you could have an "exclude" option for 
> items you don't want to dissappear into a truncated representation...
> 
> Of course a fully automated approach which recognizes different
> "inhabitants" 
> in the Systray and does what is appropriate sounds good (as long as its not
> 
> too arbitrary and the user can still exclude what he/she likes).
> 
> Just my two cents. ;)
> 
> Jeremy.
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