VDG suggestions and wishes about the system tray

[Martin Klapetek]

On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Sebastian Kügler <sebas at kde.org> wrote:

> On Tuesday, August 26, 2014 22:00:54 Eike Hein wrote:
> > Hiding "passive" status notifier items robs the user of an
> > entire tier of organization when deciding how near/far they
> > want to place a running app.
>
> This may also encourage more abuse: i.e. not setting the status to hidden,
> ever. Remember that we're often dealing with apps who want to forego being
> shown in the taskbar (presumably to save space). Effectively, this means
> that
> apps will set their status to always be active, leading to more clutter in
> the
> panel.
>

On the other hand, it's how Unity (and maybe others?) work for years. Let's
find out if it was a real problem for them and about how many apps are they
aware of abusing this?

Cheers
-- 
Martin Klapetek | KDE Developer
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