System tray

[Marco Martin]

On Tuesday 18 September 2012, Dmitry wrote:
> Hello, Marco!
> 
> Could you try a system tray from plasma/dmitrya/systemtray-qml branch of
> kde-workspace? What do you think about popup window? Maybe will it
> better if icons in popup are placed like a grid?

Hi,
I just tried it, i must say it's looking pretty good already :)
(layouting of the icons seems to already work better than the old one, yay :D)

just a few remarks:
- the icons don't seem to be sorted by type (should be applications and 
xembed, followed by communications, services and hardware control) while 

- it works only in vertical or horizontal formfactors: when put in desktop the 
systray will have all icons one over the otherand won't have the button to 
open the popup

- the qml files seems gplv3+. the policy for the things distributed by default 
is using 2+ (for qml files even better lgpl, so wouldn't cause headaches if a 
file may be reused in a component in the future)

- for the popup as just icons: not overly strong opinion, but I tend to prefer 
using text as well. there isn't enough space in the main systray, but there is 
plenty in the popup. text tends to work better than icons, and forces who is 
writing apps that use those icons to think about sensible names (i fear if we 
remove names from there new apps would start to have empty or meaningless 
names)

anyways, can you post a screenshot on the list? so is easier to get more 
opinions

Cheers,
Marco Martin