From kde-core-devel  Mon Feb 14 22:24:33 2005
From: Reinhold Kainhofer <reinhold () kainhofer ! com>
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 22:24:33 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: thoughts on the systray
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Lubos Lunak wrote:
> 4) Daemons, quick access, whatever
> - This is stuff like alarmd (or whatever that systray icon KOrganizer
> brings all the time is called), the several systray icons from SUSE
> (susewatcher, suseplugger, profile switcher), and maybe even Klipper.
> - Probably the best description of this case is that these are the things
> that you usually don't want to see. I really don't care about alarmd as
> long as there's no alarm,=20

Yes, you use the correct wording "as long as there's no alarm".

The one and only reason korgac has it's own systray icon is that it adds th=
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ability to disable alarms temporarily. In particular, if you are giving a=20
presentation or something like that, you don't want any reminders to pop up=
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And the system tray icon is the only place to achieve this.

The other feature available in the systray is to dismiss all alarm dialogs =
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you went away on vacation for a few weeks, and hundreds of alarms popped up=
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That might just as well moved to a button inside each reminder dialog.

And the final "feature" of korgac that is available only in the sys tray is=
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the possiblity to exit korgac. Compare this to evolution's data-server whic=
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will always stay running in the background (if you have started evolution=20
once, the session management will take care of restarting, even if you neve=
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intend to run evolution again). The only way to kill it is doing an explici=
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kill PID.

Cheers,
Reinhold

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Reinhold Kainhofer, Vienna, Austria
email: reinhold@kainhofer.com, http://reinhold.kainhofer.com/
 * Financial and Actuarial Mathematics, TU Wien, http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at
 * K Desktop Environment, http://www.kde.org/, KOrganizer / KPilot maintain=
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