[Panel-devel] Re: System tray

[Georges A.K.]

Yes, and that way we never have to poll and we'll never block the
tray. As for the status of an app that doesn't send it, we can guess
sometimes. For instance, if the icon is modified, we suppose that
there's activity and we unhide the icon. Or if the app sends a
notifiation. I'm sure we could come up with a few other scenarios. But
ideally, every app would implement our protocol (ideally !).

On 6/29/05, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday 28 June 2005 11:58, Georges A.K. wrote:
> > Lubos is right, but I don't see why we would poll the applications ?
> > Isn't it easier if whenever there's a change, the application notifies
> > the tray ? In what situations would the tray have to poll for info ?
> 
> preferably never. this does mean that apps would have to be conscientious 
> about publishing things like their activity status (for use in deciding
> which 
> icons to auto hide and which not to)
> 
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