On Wed, 2013-10-09 at 11:46 +0000, Andre Robatino wrote: > John Morris <jmorris <at> beau.org> writes: > > Screen space is valuable so removing an icon that is 'always' there and > > isn't typically displaying useful information is sensible enough. > > Possibly a dumb question, but doesn't space have to always be available for > the icon, whether it's displayed always or just some of the time? I mean, if > there was no available space to display a wired connection icon, and the > connection goes down, it would be impossible to show the "disconnected" icon > either.
Nah, there are a lot of notifications icons that COULD appear, most don't unless they have something interesting to say. For example (not sure if the GNOMEs have defeatured it but it is there on 2 because it happened to me) if a drive is failing a SMART monitor tool will pop an icon into the system tray. Having it always there to say your drive is ok would not be useful. I have my power icon set to only appear if power is coming or going from the battery, same for the UPS's system tray icon. And there is always the icon that appears daily to let ya know you need to run update again. :) Really haven't though about what would happen if the system tray overflowed. Would it do like Windows and resort to a popup with more icons or like Android and slide?
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