kill the systray?

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Tuesday, September 24, 2013 17:06:14 Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> When I asked Martin if he knew a way to do the xembed, he replied (being
> Martin ;)) asking if we can just kill it and quoted starwars. I wonder: Can
> we kill it yet?

I just had a discussion on G+ with a couple of our friends with GNOME about 
this matter[1]. Apparently they are thinking of just dropping support for 
system tray icons altogether, and deprecating the API in Gtk+. If that does 
indeed happen, then that is a major step towards being able to kill support 
for it.

The only remaining problem then becomes Qt5. QSystemTrayIcon does not support 
the DBus protocol .. it should, really, since the two largest Linux desktop 
envs built on Qt use it ;)

[1] https://plus.google.com/u/0/110564179941764460291/posts/GrfpS9GvLqX

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Aaron J. Seigo