From kde-devel  Wed Oct 27 14:11:29 2004
From: Jozef Kosoru <zyzstar () uid0 ! sk>
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 14:11:29 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: Proposal to implement autohide in systemtray.
Message-Id: <20041027141128.GP19811 () osiris ! uid0 ! sk>
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On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 19:43:13 +0200, David Hénot wrote:
[...]
> I have been thinking about this problem for some time as I like the
> possibility of hiding systray icons but I think the way it is done in
> XP sucks : for newbies I think it is quite confusing when the UI
> changes without any user action, and for "advanced" users an
> inactivity-based system is a bit frustrating. For example I may want
> for a particular icon to be never hidden, so I'm able to quickly know
> the application is running or not, and when I use a hidden icon I
> don't want it to wait for several minutes before it is hidden again.
> Impossible with a XP-like systray.

No, it is perfectly possible!
In Windows XP you can configure which icons never hide and which should
be hidden all the time.

> So I thought the best way for me would be to configure which icons
> should be hidden regardless of their inactivity time. I have tried to
> implement it and finaly I have something working. I attached a patch
> with my changes. It still needs some work I think, but I find it quite
> useful.


j.

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