Whatever happened to: "Merging Task List + System Tray + Program Launcher applets"?

[Christian Dywan]

Am Mon, 3 Nov 2008 11:26:00 +0100
schrieb "Nick Schermer" <nickschermer at gmail.com>:

> 2008/11/3 Jannis Pohlmann <jannis at xfce.org>:
> > Hey,
> >
> > Am Mon, 03 Nov 2008 10:27:26 +0100
> > schrieb Harold <xfce at sait.nl>:
> >
> >>
> >> Dear Xfce-devs,
> >>
> >> About 2 years ago, there was some discussion on and of this list
> >> about a revolutionary new way to merge the Task List + System Tray
> >> + Program Launcher applets.
> 
> Yes I know, there is an open bug report for this (#2680). The problem
> is the implementation is hard and although it looks nice in the demo,
> I really doubt it will be user friendly.
> 
> Maybe some way of merging the tasklist and launchers is feasible, but
> the system tray has completely different goals.

I have played with projects that implement a combination of tasks and
launchers, such as avant window manager, which I don't like as such,
but I do like the idea. I also doubt very much that system tray icons
make any sense in that context.

I actually even wrote some experimental code. But I really need to find
time to make it useful. Maybe I find that time at some point...