From kde-core-devel  Tue Apr 26 18:07:40 2005
From: Aaron Seigo <aseigo () kde ! org>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 18:07:40 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Thoughts on the systray II.
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On April 26, 2005 3:21, Lubos Lunak wrote:
>  The idea behind the patches is that one window can be turned into one tr=
ay
> icon by setting a certain flag on it. A bit like the taskbar.=20

after sitting on this for a few days to consider it, i think these patches =
are=20
the right direction. there is a lot more than can and should be done with i=
t,=20
but once we have it in CVS it'll be easier to work on it with you =3D)

> So as long as=20
> there's one window, there's at most one icon. Standalone KMail's tray icon
> would fall into category 1), i.e. tray icon being a small representation
> for the main window, showing status; the same aKregator. But with the
> rather unusual concept of Kontact swallowing several apps there seems to =
be
> a problem.

this is one reason (among a few) that i don't want to use WM hints ... i'd=
=20
really prefer to use IPC for it. but that will likely ahve to wait for DBUS.

the particular reason here is that there is no one-to-one relationship betw=
een=20
windows and systray icons. nor should there need to be. the app should be=20
able to create as many or as few as it wants, regardless of how many window=
s=20
it's showing.

> - having only one tray icon - That'd mean the KMail and aKregator parts
> would have to share the icon (and merge the tooltip text, etc.). I have no

this is what we're aiming for in KDE4, based on discussions i've had with s=
ome=20
of the KDE PIM people on IRC.

> filtered on the server). Making the tray icon optionally wider would solve
> this, just like it would with media players that want to show more buttons
> (I think I've seen some media player to have several tray icons for sever=
al
> buttons), but that'd complicate the layouting for tall Kicker, and I'd
> expect to see Aaron moaning about that.

i already have to deal with this in the systemtray, and i'm actually improv=
ing=20
support for such (ab?)uses of the tray in the applet. so ... no, i don't ha=
ve=20
a problem with this =3D)

> So far I think just having one merged tray icon would be ok. What do you
> think?

yes. this is the "Right" solution for kontact, though i'm not sure it's goi=
ng=20
to work in every case =3D)

=2D-=20
Aaron J. Seigo
Society is Geometric

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