kill the systray?

[Marco Martin]

On Tuesday 24 September 2013, Martin Graesslin wrote:

> > if Gtk+ supported status notifiers natively, then i’d say “yes”. it
> > doesn’t, so anyone who uses a Gtk+ application with a system tray icon
> > will suddenly not be able to access it. i’m pretty sure that’s going to
> > cause  problems.
> 
> what's the status of the Ubuntu implementation? Is it that an app has to
> explicitly link against it?

as far i know yes, libappindicator or something like that
 
> > as the GNOME devs are currently porting to Wayland as well, now would be
> > a good time to find out what they plan to do with their xembed system
> > tray.
> 
> I just tried to find some information on how they are using it and somehow
> I'm not sure whether the xembed systray is available at all in GNOME...

iirc their position is that they don't want them at all, don't know if they do 
work anyways tough

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Marco Martin