On Friday 24 of June 2005 21:58, Yaron Tausky wrote: > Hi there, > > I proposed in a recent discussion on the GNOME desktop-devel-list [1] a > new way to tackle the need for running certain apps in the background > (e.g. music player, IM, etc.), since currently people are abusing the > notification area for that. Aside from the hackish nature of this > approach, it is also a usabilty nightmare -- compare the ways Gaim, > Muine and Rhythmbox handle their notification area docks to see what I > mean. Therefore, my idea consists of two suggestions:
Hmm. Haven't you by a chance been browsing the KDE mailing list archives recently :) ? http://lists.kde.org/?t=111726992600001&r=1&w=2 http://lists.kde.org/?t=111358772000004&r=1&w=2 > 2. Add a WM API which would enable windows to add menu items to the WM > action menu (appears when you right-click the window in the taskbar on > GNOME). Together with the first suggestion, we should get a fairly good > implementaion of app docking, plus standard behaviour for every app > (i.e. right-click to bring the menu, left-click to show/minimize window, > close to quit the application). A little mockup I gimped up is available > [2]. > This suggestion, however, is quite complicated to implement. The > application would have to post its specific menu item to the WM (in a > cross-toolkit manner!) since we would have to merge them with the > standard window options (e.g. close, minimize, etc.). We could go the > other way around, but then we would have to rely on the developers' good > will -- this is too prone to abuse. The same problem appears to come up > with cross-desktop applets [3], so we should probably have a unified > convention for posting menus to another processes. Possible, but not simple, and it'd be always limited. It seems much simpler to have just "show your menu" message. -- Lubos Lunak KDE developer --------------------------------------------------------------------- SuSE CR, s.r.o. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] , [EMAIL PROTECTED] Drahobejlova 27 tel: +420 2 9654 2373 190 00 Praha 9 fax: +420 2 9654 2374 Czech Republic http://www.suse.cz/ _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list xdg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
