From kde-panel-devel Thu Aug 28 17:42:18 2014 From: Philipp Stefan Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 17:42:18 +0000 To: kde-panel-devel Subject: Re: VDG suggestions and wishes about the system tray Message-Id: <53FF69FA.2060200 () gmail ! com> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-panel-devel&m=140924775007281 On 28.08.2014 17:52, Marco Martin wrote: > On Tuesday 26 August 2014 21:26:42 Philipp Stefan wrote: >> Hello everyone, >> >> the VDG told me to take a look at the system tray after the 5.0 >> releases, because even though it's a huge step forward, we felt that >> there are some inconsistencies in how it behaves. My task was to >> identify these issues and come up with possible solutions. We talked >> about them already and think it is now time to come forwards with our >> suggestions. If these ideas are accepted we'll deliver guidelines on how >> to integrate an application nicely into the system tray. >> > so ,as a conclusion, I want to try to do a very bare bone recap: > > * there seems to be too many icons in the popup, especially some that don't > really do much > * completely hiding icons of statusnotifiers of applications gives problems, > because makes those applications unreachable for all intents and purposes > * however should be pretty safe to hide plasmoids: with a possible state more, > things like the device notifier can be completely hidden when empty > * an extra state for statusnotifiers may cause problems for unity and the two > gtk clients. > * completely hide vs an extra layer of show/collapse what's better? > > * As a first action item, completely hide really empty plasmoids (it would be > up to the plasmoid logic to decide that with setting the proper state on > itself) > > * Still open problem: less crowded popup, but still being able to access > applications that are accessible only by their systray icon I'd also add that Unity's and Plasma's interpretation of the spec are currently not compatible. _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel