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. -- Dan -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected].
