Re: keyboard indicator

[Sergey Udaltsov <sergey udaltsov gmail com>]

Hear, hear!

Exactly what I meant. Currently the tray is amazingly messy. Some bits
are missing from the specs, I guess.
And still, the question is open - can you put arbitrary gtk widget
into the tray? Not GtkStatusIcon, I mean.

Sergey

On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 12:10 AM, Colin Walters <walters verbum org> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Sergey Udaltsov
> <sergey udaltsov gmail com> wrote:
>>> The design is that the system icon tray is mostly that type of stuff
>>> related to your hardware; messaging (pidgin, xchat, gwibber) is handled
>>> by the message tray.
>> I always had impression that notification tray is overused. You cannot
>> position icons inside the tray,
>
> It would be relatively easy to define the specific location for a
> given tray icon; we could define a new X property (or reuse WM_CLASS).
>  The fact that the ones from the OS core are currently randomly
> ordered is fairly broken.
>