VDG suggestions and wishes about the system tray

[Eike Hein]

On August 26, 2014 10:58:39 PM CEST, Eike Hein <hein at kde.org> wrote:
>Except sometimes you *want* to hide things and remove them
>from your immediate attention. It's a "I know where I put
>it" kind of thing. 

As a side note: Many use cases of virtual desktops and activities come down to this as well, as do Yakuake and other implementations of the enduringly popular drop-down terminal pattern. It's clearly a thing. And I find it really odd how the repeated "let's redesign the tray" plans always ignore how and why people actually use the thing (because investigating this points to user needs, and then you can ponder how to best meet them - instead of developing theoretical "this would be cleaner" models).

Cheers,
Eike