An alternative for XEmbed

[Martin Gräßlin]

On Monday 14 April 2014 23:38:55 Aleix Pol wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 8:09 PM, Martin Gräßlin <mgraesslin at kde.org> wrote:
> > On Monday 14 April 2014 20:04:48 Marco Martin wrote:
> > > On Monday 14 April 2014 19:51:02 Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> > > > On Monday 14 April 2014 19:19:33 Aleix Pol wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > > I've been using Plasma Next for the last days, and I must say it's
> > > > > really
> > > > > annoying to get applications lost on close, because they don't
> > 
> > appear on
> > 
> > > > > the system tray and they expect to.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Can we maybe figure out some alternatives so that it's bearable?
> > > > 
> > > > Sure. Install wmsystemtray and run it as:
> > > > 
> > > > wmsystemtray --bg-color white --non-wmaker
> > > 
> > > can we try to do that automaticly-ish out of the box?
> > > would be a tiny dependency anyways
> > 
> > Really? It's a pretty ugly piece of software I wouldn't want to ship. It's
> > more like we should put down somewhere docs to "I lost my systray icon how
> > to
> > get it back?".
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> 
> Nice or ugly, I think we want to have an official way to support it. It's
> fine that it's separate because it's deprecated but we still don't want to
> disregard users that have needs of such feature...

Right, that's why I wrote we should document that. But don't add it to the 
default set of software run in a Plasma Session.

Cheers
Martin
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