Systemtray breakout notes

[Martin Gräßlin]

On Friday 17 January 2014 14:31:56 Mark Gaiser wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 11:51 AM, Marco Martin <notmart at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Friday 17 January 2014, Martin Klapetek wrote:
> >> I think this raises another question though - if you add any applet on
> >> the
> >> panel, will it also share the systray popup? And if not, which I really
> >> think it should not, then the calendar should stay its own popup because
> >> it's not part of the systray. Also think of configurations where the
> >> clock
> >> is not beside the systray, in those configs it would be...bad :)
> >> 
> >> So imho, keep the calendar to its own popup, it's not part of systray and
> >> it should never be.
> > 
> > unless (radical) the systray becomes a panel containment type and decides
> > by itself what of its applets will end up in that popup.
> 
> Ohh! Do never take that approach!
> You can make that work for "some users" but you can't make that work
> for the generic KDE user.
> 
> This would require you to make some logic to decide which applets end
> up in the popup and which don't. That logic will work for those that
> agree to the same logic and would expect it to be that way anyway. But
> it won't work for those that have slightly different expectations.
> 
> Or that's my view on things..
That's just fine. We can try making the default perfect and provide the best 
possible default experience. Users do not have to use the default, but they 
don't need to expect the same experience when moving away from the defaults.

Cheers
Martin
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