RFC: xfwm4: drop legacy KDE systray emulation

Gaël Bonithon trash.paradise at protonmail.com
Thu Oct 20 07:16:07 CEST 2022


------- Original Message -------
On Thursday, October 20th, 2022 at 12:44 AM, Matt Connell <matt at connell.tech> wrote:

> Now, I did some more nosing around in the Status Tray panel plugin
> settings. The settings I have show two sections, one for "Status
> Notifiers" and one for "Systray Icons" and the things I use on the
> daily are actually split between these two sections. It seems Telegram,
> nheko and Steam are "Status Notifiers" whereas Signal and Deluge are
> "Systray Icons". I have no idea if these distinctions are semantically
> meaningful, or if they are relevant to the discussion at hand, but I
> figured I would add it in case someone else goes spelunking in the
> future.

These are two different specifications:
https://specifications.freedesktop.org/systemtray-spec/systemtray-spec-latest.html
https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/StatusNotifierItem/

In theory the second one should have replaced the first one. In practice it was added to it.

Cheers,
Gaël


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