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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Proposal: kde guide systray update
From:       "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo () olympusproject ! org>
Date:       2003-02-03 20:07:06
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On Saturday 01 February 2003 05:15, Datschge@gmx.net wrote:
> Hello =)
> Attached in this email you can find a first draft of my proposed
> update for
>
> http://developer.kde.org/documentation/standards/kde/style/basics/systray.h
>tml Corrections and further comments are welcome and wanted. =)

how would the animation referred to be provided and look like?

how would applications such as kmail use a systray icon? currently it offers a 
simple notification in the system tray that makes absolutely no sense not to 
be there unless there is a kmail process (window) running. users expect/want 
such a systray icon, so this isn't a needless ad-hoc feature...

i think there is a further distinction between types of uses of the systray: 

  o apps that use it as their main interface
  o apps that use it as a readily available status indicator

examples of the former include kalarm and kopete (the contact list is not it's 
main interface in my mind...), while kmail falls into the second...

(oh, and there is a typo in the original and in yours: "non-document specific 
applitions" should be "non-document specific applications")

> I also attached a further small "addone" for the already existing
> collection of usability reports about Kopete.

this is an implementation detail that the user should not be bothered with 
IMO. there should either be a systray icon or their shouldn't be. it should 
either always be there, or it should disappear when the last kopete window 
closes

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Aaron J. Seigo
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