VDG suggestions and wishes about the system tray

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Thursday, August 28, 2014 12:08:04 Martin Klapetek wrote:
> 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?

Ah, yes, thought about that, too.

I agree that it could be tried, but I wouldn't be surprised if for Plasma, we 
come to a different conclusion. There's a certain difference in the 
"audiences" between Unity and Plasma, and that might very well manifest itself 
in apps having problems with this behaviour in Plasma (those that don't care 
about Unity). On the other hand, more consistent behaviour between 
statusnotifier implementations is probably a good thing.
-- 
sebas

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