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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Systray Usability
From:       Esben Mose Hansen <kde () mosehansen ! dk>
Date:       2005-02-05 10:54:43
Message-ID: 200502051153.55771.kde () mosehansen ! dk
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On Saturday 05 February 2005 10:10, Andras Mantia wrote:
> Andras Mantia wrote:
> > ) in case the systray is on the bottom, introduce the app name entry at
> > the
> > botton, not to the top, so the lowest item is not Quit.
>
> And here is my version (tested, and I'm happy with the popup menu, I think
> it's not easy to push Quit anymore). The problem is that some apps I think
> abuse the system tray and introduce a title by themselves or they
> completely take control of what is shown in the menu (I suppose by
> reimplementing mousePressEvent. This results in the fact that:
> a) the solution doesn't work at all (the app has the control)
> b) you will see two titles, sometimes both on the top, some time one is at
> the top, one is at the bottom.
>
> Example for a) is Klipper, example for b) is the language switching
> application. I think both can be fixed to behave correctly. Some random
> testing with other applications (juk, kopete, amarok) didn't show any
> problems.

Great idea, but fixing Klipper will not be trivial, due to the very dynamic 
menu. Could this wait for KDE4? It's a bit late for that kind of sweeping 
changes, in my very humble opinion.

-- 
regards. Esben

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