question about panel size guideline

[Marco Martin]

On Saturday 31 December 2011, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> 
> the system tray currently violates this as the xembed icons have a set
> minimum size that we can do very little about as they are out of process
> embedded windows. probably all xembed icons should be moved to the hidden
> area when the area allow for the tray is less than the height/width of an
> xembed entry.
> 
> the tasks widget similarly does not scale visually down below 22px very
> nicely. the count below the arrow on groups is too tall, the frame too
> thick on small panels.

idea that i was toying with for a while:
what about hiding by default all xembed icons no matter what? they just break 
our systray paradigm (would always be possible to make them visible one by one 
with the usual ui)

Cheers,
Marco Martin