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List:       kde
Subject:    Re: [kde] OS X style dock
From:       James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj () acm ! org>
Date:       2004-04-30 6:50:48
Message-ID: 4091F748.7080801 () acm ! org
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Rob H wrote:
> James,
>>From what I gather, you're referring to applications
> like kopete and kmix.

KGet, KAlarm, & KsCD are three others that I am sure work this way.  When 
you close them, they do not close but rather are reduced to a System Tray 
icon.  So the feature appears to be generally available.  But, IIUC, it is 
necessary that the application support this for it to work.

> I'm interested in a more standardised approach such
> that every application can behave in that way.
> It might sound crazy, but OS X does it in an excellent
> way. Think the 'system tray' icons replacing the 'task
> bar' (excusing the use of windows terms)

'Taskbar' is what Kicker calls it.

This appears to be a good idea, but the applications have to implement it. 
  I haven't read the code, but I would suspect that there is a standard way 
to do it.

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JRT
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