El 02/03/09 06:37, Dan Pascu escribió: > On Friday 27 February 2009, Gilbert wrote: >> On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:43:45 +0200 >> >> Igor Viarheichyk <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I am glad to see that development continues again, and hope this >>> patch can be useful. >>> >>> The patch provides handling of freedesktop system tray icons in the >>> same way window maker handles icon windows provided by applications. >>> >>> It is possible to use dockapps like wmsystray or docker for this >>> purpose, however, they have limitations like max four visible icons. >>> >>> Moving this functionality to Window Maker makes it possible to use >>> same appicon as a launcher and a tray icon, removes limitation to >>> number of icons and allows arranging icons by workspaces. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Igor >> Excellent idea! I'm sure someone will scream 'Bloat!', but the patch >> doesn't add much code and the extra functionality may be very good to >> have if ti works right. > > How much code is added is not the point. The point is that such > functionality doesn't belong to a window manager, but to an external > application. Window Maker it's not a desktop environment, nor does it > target to be one. Even in such an environment, the system tray is not > part of the window manager, it's part of a standalone taskbar > application. In KDE or Gnome, you will not see such functionality being > part of metacity or kwin either. > >> I, for one, am going to check this out. Now if >> we could just get a nice small panel inetgrated... > > A panel is not part of the wmaker philosophy, nor does it belong to a > window manager. One can write it as a standalone application anytime > though. >
Hi I have used docker for a long time that I can doker icons 9 bar system $ docker -wmaker -iconsize 16 http://nixbit.com/cat/desktop-environment/tools/docker/ I attach a screenshot. Néstor A. Marchesini Argentina
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