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Subject: Re: VDG suggestions and wishes about the system tray
From: Martin Klapetek <martin.klapetek () gmail ! com>
Date: 2014-08-28 10:08:04
Message-ID: CAPLgePo+X3gpKmLtiz_rS54cfzt2GFST=g3fyV80Ub+0s9vWfQ () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Sebastian Kügler <sebas@kde.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday, August 26, 2014 22:00:54 Eike Hein wrote:
> > Hiding "passive" status notifier items robs the user of an
> > entire tier of organization when deciding how near/far they
> > want to place a running app.
>
> This may also encourage more abuse: i.e. not setting the status to hidden,
> ever. Remember that we're often dealing with apps who want to forego being
> shown in the taskbar (presumably to save space). Effectively, this means
> that
> apps will set their status to always be active, leading to more clutter in
> the
> panel.
>
On the other hand, it's how Unity (and maybe others?) work for years. Let's
find out if it was a real problem for them and about how many apps are they
aware of abusing this?
Cheers
--
Martin Klapetek | KDE Developer
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<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 12:02 PM, \
Sebastian Kügler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sebas@kde.org" \
target="_blank">sebas@kde.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc \
solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="">On Tuesday, August 26, 2014 22:00:54 Eike Hein wrote:<br> > \
Hiding "passive" status notifier items robs the user of an<br> > entire tier of organization \
when deciding how near/far they<br> > want to place a running app.<br>
<br>
</div>This may also encourage more abuse: i.e. not setting the status to hidden,<br>
ever. Remember that we're often dealing with apps who want to forego being<br>
shown in the taskbar (presumably to save space). Effectively, this means that<br>
apps will set their status to always be active, leading to more clutter in the<br>
panel.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>On the other hand, it's how Unity (and maybe others?) work \
for years. Let's find out if it was a real problem for them and about how many apps are they aware of \
abusing this?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Cheers</div></div>-- <br><div><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)">Martin Klapetek | \
KDE Developer</span></div> </div></div>
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