Systemtray breakout notes

Sebastian Kügler sebas at kde.org
Fri Jan 17 10:59:06 UTC 2014


On Friday, January 17, 2014 11:02:14 Kevin Krammer wrote:
> On Friday, 2014-01-17, 10:27:13, Djuro Drljaca wrote:
> > what about a separate component just for XEmbed? This would solve the
> > modern systray dependency problems and the users that really need XEmbed
> > could just add XEmbed systray component next to the modern systray
> > component.
> >
> > I know this would be ugly, but it might be a good compromise...
> 
> Just saying that I was thinking the same.
> Ideally as a Plasma applet so it can be put into a Plasma panel, but IMHO 
> still OK if it were just a tiny, plain stay-on-top window.
> 
> I.e. it is ok if it is ugly, not well integrated or not integrated at all,
> if  it is available in some way.

To me, this would be a fine solution if someone wanted to implement it. I 
personally would rather focus on other things to get the user experience 
right, but if someone's interested in working on this, I'd be happy to supply 
pointers and answer questions.

Cheers,
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sebas

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