On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 4:46 AM, Thomas Gstädtner <tho...@gstaedtner.net> wrote: > Hi, > > in the past the topic system tray has been discussed often on the > list, including the argument, that the FDO SysTray spec is to flawed > to have the SysTray module included in the main E package. > Now the module is there afterall - nonetheless still ugly as hell. :) > Some months ago a KDE developer propsed the StatusNotifier > Specification to replace this - and more. > Despite fixing some flaws that the SysTray Spec has it also introduces > a lot more complexity and features, including being dbus-based and > having proper ARGB support. > Apparently the KDE developers have already implemented it fully and > start migrating to it, and ubuntu, being the biggest Gnome-based > distro pushes towards it for Gnome. > I noticed, that also first non-KDE and non-Gnome apps start using it, > so it appear that it might replace SysTray in the long run. > > It might be useful for E to support it, because we can git rid of > SysTray as it won't be staying anyway - also it seems that it is > supposed to offer a lot of extra features that are currently > implemented in desktop specific widgets, i.e. the E modules: mixer, > battery, cpufreq, ... > > I don't know if you have already seen the Spec, nor do I know if it is > useful or wise for E to implement. > But so or so, I think it would be useful for the E developers to > review it and join the discussion to make it fit for E (if it > doesn't), as long as it's not final. > Also it seems that it does make quite some things right that didn't > fit with SysTray. Being dbus based there is no need for ugly toolkit > based menus in the tray and so on, also E has dbus support anyway. > > Here are the links to the discussion on the FDO mailinglist and the > official Spec: > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2010-January/011196.html > http://www.notmart.org/misc/statusnotifieritem/index.html
Hi, At least raster and I checked it out, and it indeed turns to be better than systray. AFAIR raster did not like the requirement for dbus there, given that X offers the same features they need, but seems KDE guys did it that way so it was easier to support in Win32 as well. However, I don't see none of us digging into coding that. It should not be a big task, but time is short on our side. We can mentor anyone willing to implement it. BR, -- Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri http://profusion.mobi embedded systems -------------------------------------- MSN: barbi...@gmail.com Skype: gsbarbieri Mobile: +55 (19) 9225-2202 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
