From kde-panel-devel  Sun Jun 15 19:32:19 2008
From: "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo () kde ! org>
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 19:32:19 +0000
To: kde-panel-devel
Subject: Re: Patch for system tray layouting
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On Sunday 15 June 2008, Marco Martin wrote:
> On Saturday 14 June 2008, Bernhard wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I can't say anything about your patch in generally because I'm just not
> > familiar with the internals of KDE yet ... but (and I don't know if it's
> > your fault) why the hell is the size of the systray icons hardcoded??

short answer: the fd.o sys tray spec is really bad. it was ok for the time =
it=20
was invented (kde1), but we've really outgrown it.

> > Shouldn't there be a global setting for the icon size?

in KDE there is. or at least, the icon size is set by the KSystemTrayIcon=20
class.

> the problem is, among the nastiness of the systray that the mini windows
> that rapresent systray icons are 22x22, no matter what and we can't do
> nothing about that

actually, the problem is even worse than that =3D/

in KDE, our icons are 22x22. but the systray spec itself says nothing about=
=20
that. in fact, i know of at least one gtk+ app that puts a widget into the=
=20
systray that contains a horizontal layout that contains an icon and a text=
=20
label! this thing can easily be 50-100px wide.

this is why i eventually re-wrote kicker's sytray layouting to allow items =
to=20
span multiple rows and take that into consideration when doing layouts.

the systray spec sucks so badly, in so many ways. it makes me cry every tim=
e i=20
look at it. =3D)

=2D-=20
Aaron J. Seigo
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