On 2006-01-07 22:48 +0000, Rui T. C. Matos wrote: > What do you mean by bloated gnome protocol? I don't know either the gnome or > the > kde protocol for this but I thought that their applets always needed their > respective panels (kicker in kde IIRC)... Do you mean that you can run kde > applets without kicker?
The KDE systray protocol is simply windows having the _KDE_NET_SYSTEM_TRAY_WINDOW_FOR property point to some window. It's even simpler than the kludgy window maker dockapp protocol. The gnomedesktop.org protocol, on the other hand, completely overrides the standard window management setup stuff with its own reinventing-the-wheel protocol based on the reinventing-the-wheel-XEMBED that the WM should then also support (and which is in the usual fdo vein in part very specific to the crappy tab-navigation model and otherwise crappy keyboard support as well). <http://standards.freedesktop.org/systemtray-spec/systemtray-spec-0.2.html> <http://standards.freedesktop.org/xembed-spec/xembed-spec-0.5.html> -- Tuomo
