[Panel-devel] Superkaramba Icon

[Ryan Nickell]

On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 09:03 +0300, Petri Damsten wrote:
> > Not sure about that at all, I implemented both, in hope that an expert will
> > tell the right way.
> 
> This has been discussed before and I still can't see why kde's ability to hide 
> systray icons is not enough. If this is for earlier versions of kde it should 
> be only enabled there. 
The system tray does a pretty good job of hiding the system tray icon
currently, but that in respect to the purpose of it being there is quick
access to a set of functionality.  Once people get their desktop looking
the way they want, they(users) might not see a purpose for it any
longer.  The only current reason, besides opening more themes, is to get
new themes via KNewStuff.  That being the case, hiding the system tray
icon completely doesn't seem like an entirely bad thing.
> 
> Theme menu is only for theme specific stuff. 'Toggle system tray icon' and 
> 'Quit superkaramba' should not be there. 
This was my concern as well.  This is more superkaramba wide
functionality that, if implemented, should only be accessible to users
via the systray icon(which the patch does) and/or the theme dialog
interface(which the patch doesn't).  
Removing it from the themes configure menu would satisfy me personally.
But, if the system tray menu supports removing the icon completely in a
future release, then we should allow it to control the behavior, to be
more consistent with other kde applications.
> 
> Petri
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One other option may be beautifying the icon more?  Continuing to add
functionality that makes its persistent presence neccessary?  We are
moving that way, but it has not be fully tested by the users since the
release isn't out yet.

Ryan