VDG suggestions and wishes about the system tray

[Marco Martin]

On Thursday 28 August 2014 12:02:04 Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> On Wednesday, August 27, 2014 10:12:54 Ivan Čukić wrote:
> > I'm not going to chime in regarding the applications - I tend to agree
> > with
> > both parties - that not everything needs to be shown, yet that people like
> > some of their applications minimized to tray (myself included - I even
> > hide
> > those applications from the task bar).
> > 
> > One thing where I fully support the proposal is for plasmoids in the tray
> > -
> > it  is a really a bad thing to have so many empty panels in - no devices,
> > no notifications, no batteries etc.
> 
> I think for batteries, we're doing that already (at least in Plasma 4 we
> didn't add the battery plasmoid to the panel for desktop systems).
> 
> For notifications and storage devices, I quite like the idea. Maybe worth a
> try to hide them completely and gauge the user reaction? (I can imagine
> nobody would miss it.)

one thing i would love, is to expand what we are doing with dbus activation of 
plasmoids, even tough for things like "not having any removable storage device 
attached" would require some more complex rules

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Marco Martin