[Panel-devel] Superkaramba Icon

[Petri Damsten]

On Monday 27 June 2005 12:16, A. Wiedenbruch wrote:
> After theme configuration the superkaramba system tray icon is pretty
> useless. So why still show it? 

Theme dialog is shown from systray icon. There you get a list of themes in 
your computer and can download new themes from kde-look.org. Of course this 
could be added to theme menu also...

> Why have users configure the system tray 
> when superkaramba can hide the icon on its own?

Having more than one way of doing things might confuse people. But I guess in 
this case most of the kde apps can do this both ways.

> The icon hiding has been a long time wish from users and I have to say that
> I don't like the icon too. I don't know you, perhaps you have done geat
> things for the community, but instead of saying: "I don't understand why
> people wants the feature" you should say: "Ok, how can we satisfy our
> users" The kwallet author didn't like the no-password-wallet-option, but he
> implemeted it because user asked him to allow this possibility.

When satisfying other users you might get already happy users unhappy. 
Propably changing Gimp user interface would make many users happy but at the 
same time many unhappy. I want to implement this such a way that users that 
are happy with the systray icon (like I am) will have as clean gui as before.

> > Theme menu is only for theme specific stuff. 'Toggle system tray icon'
> > and 'Quit superkaramba' should not be there.
>
> I understand your wish for a clean design but I think the user doesn't
> care. For the user it's just superkaramba. Please prove me that I'm wrong.

I count myself as a superkaramba user and I do care. From a cleaner user 
interface I found things more quickly and it's more pleasing to my eye. 

> The problem is that there is no main window. In JuK or KMail you can switch
> the system tray icon on and off within the app. The only interface to the
> user is the system tray icon, but when its hidden...
> One possibilty could be to show only the toogle and quit button if the icon
> is hidden.

and theme dialog entry. I could settle for this.

Petri


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