kill the systray?

Marco Martin notmart at gmail.com
Tue Sep 24 17:34:58 UTC 2013


On Tuesday 24 September 2013, Matthias Klumpp wrote:
> GNOME embeds the tray Icons in it's norification area, supporting xembed
> right now. In future, they want a different notification system, which is
> used exclusively (design docs are available, i will look them up at home)
> However, I assume GTK+ will have a systray implementation (at least for
> Xfce), so it makes much sense to discuss post-x systray now and create a
> Freedesktop document for it - maybe just use DBusmenu...

dbusmenu has nothing to do with systemtrays.
we do have a post-x systemtray and is StatusNotifier, the one that ubuntu uses 
as well. (so some gtk apps supports it upstream, some have patches on ubuntu 
side)
and yes, it has been discussed on freedesktop literally to death, years ago.

-- 
Marco Martin


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