On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 06:38:47PM +0100, Martin Stubenschrott wrote: > I think, the dock could be easily improved to automatically put the system > tray icons in the dock, since (as far as I figured out) all kde system tray > icons set this window property: > > _KDE_NET_WM_SYSTEM_TRAY_WINDOW_FOR(WINDOW): window id # 0xaf > of course the window id will change, but when the string > "_KDE_NET_WM_SYSTEM_TRAY_WINDOW_FOR" is present as a window property, the > window shoul be automatically placed in the dock, I think. > > or is this an EWMH (or what it is called actually), and there is no support in > Ion for this extended styles?
The full specification is here: http://www.freedesktop.org/Standards/systemtray-spec >From my reading of the specification, it would seem that to properly support system tray apps, the dock would also have to implement the XEMBED specification: http://www.freedesktop.org/Standards/xembed-spec Any volunteers? I don't use KDE or GNOME on my system and would prefer to avoid installing them, which makes testing hard :-) -- Tom
