System tray implementation

[Benedikt Meurer]

On Sat, 19, Apr 2003, Danny wrote:

> Hi!
> > > Furtheron, in order to get support for the "old" KDE system tray protocol
> > > we would need to have the window manager act as a kind of "proxy" between
> > > the application providing the system tray icon and the XfceSystemTray.
> > > See the description:
> > > 
> > > 	http://developer.kde.org/documentation/library/kdeqt/kde3arch/protocols-docking.html
> > 
> > That's really not a specification! It doesn't tell anything about what
> > the WM is supposed to do once it receives the property change....

I didn't say it's a specification, I said its a description.

> > > So, Olivier, what do you think: Should xfwm4 support the KDE protocol? It
> > > could look for the _KDE_NET_WM_SYSTEM_TRAY_WINDOW_FOR property being set
> > > and send a _NET_SYSTEM_TRAY_OPCODE to XfceSystemTray. That shouldn't be
> > > that hard, although I'm not entirely sure, whether the KDE tray icon stuff
> > > conforms to the XEMBED standard.
> > 
> > I'm sorry, but I don't understand that sentence:
> > 
> > > send a _NET_SYSTEM_TRAY_OPCODE to XfceSystemTray.
> > 
> > What's _NET_SYSTEM_TRAY_OPCODE ? And what's XfceSystemTray ?
> According to
> http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/systemtray/systemtray-spec.html
> this is the code a client is supposed to send messages to the system
> tray with to make it do stuff.
> 
> And XfceSystemTray will be the module containing the System Tray itself
> once it is finished, I suppose. Though you think it should go into
> xftaskbar for now.
> 
> So I think he means, he wants the window manager check for the old kde
> property on windows, and if it finds one, generate "new-style" system
> tray messages to make the result act as if they were the new one, making
> it a proxy.
> 
> Sorry for the intrusion ;)

Exactly, thanks Danny.

> Danny

regards,
Benedikt

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