Hello!

Kevin Krammer has written on Saturday, 10 August, at 19:16:
>On Saturday, 2013-08-10, Andrej N. Gritsenko wrote:
>> Stephan Sokolow has written on Saturday, 10 August, at 11:22:
>> >I've gone as far as completely avoiding applications which offer only
>> >AppIndicator-based tray icons because I refuse to double the number of
>> >clicks and throw in some precision mouse movement in order to show/hide
>> >an application's main window. (Especially if I just want to peek at its
>> >status without having said status visible during times when I'm
>> >vulnerable to distraction.)

>>     Another annoying thing of AppIndicator-based tray icons is that they
>> never show tooltips and to see status I should click it and then click
>> again to hide status, and for "usual left-click or right-click" actions I
>> should select option in menu below the status and click it. 

>Wouldn't a visualization like that be up to the host?
>I.e. the LXDE-Qt panel or tray implementation?

    Exactly, it is tray implementation which gives API for plugins. And
since gnome-shell tray doesn't offer such API, plugin has no possibility
to implement it. Therefore even if those plugins started in another tray
they still don't support it.

>The KDE Plasma tray applet definitely does show hover popups, however I don't 
>have any libappindicator using application running here (only one using either 
>KStatusNotifierItem or QSystemTrayIcon),

>Cheers,
>Kevin

    Cheers!
    Andriy.

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