VDG suggestions and wishes about the system tray

[Marco Martin]

On Tuesday 26 August 2014, Eike Hein wrote:
> On 26.08.2014 21:26, Philipp Stefan wrote:
> > This would, of course, break some applications like KTorrent. How would
> > it behave ideally? When you open KTorren and there are no torrents
> > configured there should not be an indicator as the applications simply
> > does nothing for now (passive). As soon as one adds a torrent a
> > notifiers should be shown (active). The user can then close or minimize
> > the window and do what they do. When a torrent finishes downloading the
> > status of the indicator should change to "needsAttention" to notify the
> > user that the download has finished. If the user then does not remove
> > the torrent from KTorrent i.e. it continues seeding, the indicator
> > should stay in an "active" state, not "passive" as it is now.
> 
> I feel this ignores some of the use cases that status notifiers
> currently serve in practice, and ignores how users arrange their
> workspace spatially.

also, from a pure operative standpoint, it would become impossible to close 
several applications

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Marco Martin