On Tue, 16 Oct 2012, Anthony Perkins wrote: > On 16 October 2012 11:43, Marcin Cieslak wrote: > > > On Mon, 15 Oct 2012, Christopher Turkel wrote: > > >> I am adamantly opposed to tray icon support in CDE. I realize I'll > >> probably we outvoted on this but I just don't think that should be > >> CDE's job, to manage tray icons. There are plenty of things that serve > >> this function: stalonetray is a good example. > > >I kind of agree with this in a sense that system tray never seemed like > > a good solution to me even in Windows (it is utterly broken in Windows > > Vista[1] for example). > > If it were felt that a system tray was needed I would like it to feel like > part of CDE, maybe having the tray pop up as a sub-panel of e.g. the clock? > > However I agree with Martin and Christopher in that I don't think a > system tray is needed for CDE. There are third party tools that can > provide this functionality if needed. Stalonetray has worked well for > me.
I just found a pretty interesting note linked from the freedesktop standards page: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/SystrayAndAppletsMeeting seems like the developers are not convinced the current approach to the system tray is a good thing. Seems like the front panel already implements the "applet" approach discussed there - - "multiple systrays with one icon". Welcome back to the future :) //Marcin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic APM Deploy New Relic app performance management and know exactly what is happening inside your Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and .NET app Try New Relic at no cost today and get our sweet Data Nerd shirt too! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic-dev2dev _______________________________________________ cdesktopenv-devel mailing list cdesktopenv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cdesktopenv-devel
