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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Thoughts on the systray II.
From:       "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo () kde ! org>
Date:       2005-04-29 23:24:00
Message-ID: 200504291724.15423.aseigo () kde ! org
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On Friday 29 April 2005 12:36, Kuba Ober wrote:
> > the particular reason here is that there is no one-to-one relationship
> > between windows and systray icons. nor should there need to be. the app
> > should be able to create as many or as few as it wants, regardless of how
> > many windows it's showing.
>
> Methinks that ideally, one should be able to write a "plain old C"
> application that shows itself in the systray, assuming that C bindings to
> whatever IPC is being used are available. And that application ideally
> should not depend on X libraries.

agreed. for now we can experiment with it using WM hints until we get the 
interaction down, and then when we move to an IPC mechanism with a system bus 
we can switch to that =)

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Aaron J. Seigo
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