From kde-devel Mon Apr 18 23:24:09 2005 From: Fred Schaettgen Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 23:24:09 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: Re: Thoughts on the systray II. Message-Id: <200504190124.09809.kde.sch () ttgen ! net> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=111386668412528 On Tuesday, 19. April 2005 00:34, LiuCougar wrote: > On 4/18/05, Fred Schaettgen wrote: ... > > This way the state indicator and the taskbar item for an application > > would stay at the same place. Also taskbar items display various > > application states already (application is running, currently open file > > is ...), so having a separate state indicator area would make sense only > > for states which don't correspond to anything we can show a window for - > > and I can't imagine what that could be. > > Skim is such an application which does not have a corresponding > taskbar entry, simply because under no OSes, an inputmethod should > occupy a place in the taskbar. However, skim does require notification > capabilities. Currently, it is implemented by a system tray and > another dedicated kicker applet. "Because no OS should do it" doesn't sound really convincing ;) Why not? I guess you use the system tray primarily because a) it doesn't waste a lot of space and b) because you can have a custom RMB menu. If kicker could do the same for any taskbar entry, then what reasons would be left to still use the system tray? *Currently* you don't really have a choice, sure. Fred -- Fred Schaettgen kde.sch@ttgen.net >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<