kill the systray?

[Martin Gräßlin]

On Thursday 26 September 2013 01:27:54 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> 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 bad part of the discussion is that it looks like they want to reinvent the 
wheel and given some statements lately (e.g. GTK+ is just for developing for 
GNOME Shell) I'm not every optimistic that they will even hardly think about 
anything than their system.
> 
> 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 ;)
looks like we need to fix that for 5.3 :-)

Cheers
Martin
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