From kde-core-devel Tue Apr 19 11:34:32 2005 From: Lubos Lunak Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 11:34:32 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: Thoughts on the systray II. Message-Id: <200504191334.32871.l.lunak () suse ! cz> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=111391048006258 On Monday 18 of April 2005 21:56, Anders Lund wrote: > Friday 15 April 2005 18:46 skrev Lubos Lunak: > > 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". > > For me, and i bet for several others running a similar setup, one important > aspect of systray apps are that they are always visible, which the taskbar > isn't. For any app that displays state information that i'm interrested in > in the icon, it's important that it is visible. I fail to see what does the fact that you configured you desktop so that your taskbar is not visible and systray is have to do with this. > > Some of those icons are lots of the time just the application icon (kopete, > kwalletmanager, noatun for example) so if they were applets, Nobody says these should be applets. Applets are something that lives only as a part the panel. Kopete etc. have their mainwindow, they're part 1) of my proposal. Only things like kxkb, klipper and similar are 2) and I'd want them to become applets. > they would > easily end up looking just like a launch button. An other bad aspect of > applets versus systray app (as things are now) is that a systray app takes > up less space with my setup (32px buttons, 16px systray icons). Not again. > So for me the systray is very friendly because it allows me to know for sure > that each icon is not a launch button, and they take up little space. > > > IMO, a replacement for the systray needs to take these things into > consideration. > > -anders -- Lubos Lunak KDE developer --------------------------------------------------------------------- SuSE CR, s.r.o. e-mail: l.lunak@suse.cz , l.lunak@kde.org Drahobejlova 27 tel: +420 2 9654 2373 190 00 Praha 9 fax: +420 2 9654 2374 Czech Republic http://www.suse.cz/