Re: How to manage applications using the system tray?



On Tue, 2014-02-11 at 08:55 -0600, Vadim wrote:
Since GS 3.8 working with message tray has become much more comfortable
for two reasons: first, with "pressure" feature you nowdon't ususally
open the message tray accidentally, and second, there is a convenient
way to show message tray (Super+M) and focus messages (Super+N, or
Super+Space?).

I have never pressed on those by accident, but that's me I guess. I
remember Unity messed with the system tray also. I will never understand
why it couldn't be there like before with the options to disable or move
it for those who doesn't like or use it? 

Still there are some app icons that are placed in the message tray, but
you would rather see them on the panel. For one reason, some icons
indicate the current status of the app, and another reason is that some
apps provide extensive right click menus through system tray icons, and
working with those in message tray is not great. The only solution as of
now if you use any of such apps is to use an extension that would move
icons from message tray to the top. There were many such extensions on
extensions.gnome.org, and I am not sure which ones are still supported.
But go there and search for "message tray icons".

I found an extension for Skype which works very well placing an icon up
there. The whole system tray situation is the only one I find
challenging moving from Unity and eve Cinnamon to Gnome Shell. In all
other respects Ghome Shell is a killer DE, but this messy system tray
situation is a bit annoying. I do not even know what it's called these
days: System tray? Notification area? :)

Vadim.


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Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 10:11:03 -0600
From: Christian Dysthe <cdysthe gmail com>
To: Gnome Shell List <gnome-shell-list gnome org>
Subject: How to manage applications using the system tray?
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Hi,

I have used Gnome Shell on and off for a while, but now it's my main DE.
I have to use a couple of applications like Skype, HipChat and Dropbox
which lives in the system tray. What is the best way to work with
applications like that under Gnome Shell since they do not show up in
the top right with the other icons. I know they are accessible at the
bottom with a key combo, but I wonder how people work with applications
like that on Gnome Shell.


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