From kde-core-devel Fri Apr 15 23:31:45 2005 From: George Staikos Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 23:31:45 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: Thoughts on the systray II. Message-Id: <200504151931.45427.staikos () kde ! org> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=111360792810600 On Friday 15 April 2005 12:46, Lubos Lunak wrote: > Hello, > > this is more or less a followup to > http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=110841124008784&w=2 , which died > out (because of a certain person being a bit busy, I guess :-/ ). I'd like > to revive and continue with it, and present also some "show me the code". > > To quickly summarize (see the link above for full details), the things I > suggested were: > 1) not using systray for apps minimizing, using another taskbar instead, > which may in the end even look a lot like a systray from the user's point > of view. As you'll see below this in practice mainly means replacing > KSystemTray and the underlying protocol. People in general seemed(?) to > like this part, so see below about the code. > 2) converting applet-like systray apps to real applets. Aaron had some > issues with this because of having bad nightmares about XEmbed, so this > needs more discussion, the remaining complains can be basically solved by > saying "so that needs fixing/improving" if my memory serves me well. Discussions about these two at xdevconf seemed to show that everyone there interested agreed. > 4) not using the systray for daemons, quick access and such stuff, instead > simply not having any GUI for those, or using applets/whatever. I'm not > actually sure what was the opinion on this. What do you suggest for KWallet? It's important to know that a wallet is open. Likewise for the print manager... -- George Staikos KDE Developer http://www.kde.org/ Staikos Computing Services Inc. http://www.staikos.net/