KDE/kdebase/workspace/plasma/applets/systemtray

[Marco Martin]

On Wednesday 02 July 2008, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 July 2008, Marco Martin wrote:
> > On Wednesday 02 July 2008, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 02 July 2008, Michael Rudolph wrote:
> > > > what would be the ideas and concepts behind this updated systemtray
> > > > specification?
> > >
> > > in a nutshell:
> >
> > just wondering at random my 2cents:
> > > * IPC based (rather than xembed)
> > > * all presentation and interaction is done by the systray host:
> > > 	* icon selection, with the exception of animations
> >
> > maybe a way to put also animations in it could be found?
> >  like the client saying "use that mng" (or image with multiple frames, or
> > whatever the spec will have)
>
> that would mean having animations and overlays in the icon themes. not
> highly realistic, tbh, but even then we are still left with things like
> "overlaying the number of unread mails on kmail's icon" and in future
> "having those numbers fade in nicely"
oooh, another thing that popped randomly in my head:
since it will be able to set its own pixmaps outside the theme, would be 
possible for the systray client to ask for a rectangular, not square icon?
don't know if it makes sense or if would cause more problems, but at a first 
glance seemed neat...

Cheers,
Marco Martin