On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Andreas Schik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi there,
> I have integrated a system tray as specified by freedesktop.org into the menu 
> server.
> The reason was that I want/need a couple of apps (non-GNUstep) that make use 
> of a system tray and wanted to avoid the usage of some external tray 
> application, e.g. stalonetray. They do not integrate well (if at all) with 
> the Étoilé desktop :-)
> Moreover, the menulets for the menu server are nice, but not really 
> satisfactory (too static!) and I cannot port all those apps from GTK/Qt/you 
> name it  to GNUstep for usage with menu server. An finally, the system tray 
> is a standard by now that should be provided by any desktop.
>
> Right now the tray icons are listed to the left of the menulets (see, 
> screenshot), this is the safest place for dynamic icons and the tray does not 
> respect the --small option of the menu server (does anyone use that at all?), 
> but it works.
> If you are interested, I'd be willing to donate this to the project. Mind, 
> that the code is full of X11 magic, but other parts of Étoilé are so, too :-) 
> So, I don't think this is a drawback. It cannot be helped anyway :-)

Hehe :)

It's very cool indeed!
Maybe submit the code for review on http://review.etoileos.com ?

thanks,

-- 
Nicolas Roard
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they make as they fly by." -- Douglas Adams

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