Re: Improvements to new system tray panel

[Bastián Díaz <diaz bastian openmailbox org>]

El 19-10-2015 05:42, Florian Müllner escribió:

> On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 5:27 AM, Bastián Díaz
> <diaz bastian openmailbox org> wrote:
>
> > 1. Show tray icon when an application is notified.
>
> Are you referring to applications that always show a status icons and
> change the icon to notify the user about some event? (For instance a
> chat program that uses the minimize-to-tray pattern and indicates new
> messages in the icon).

Yes, like Telegram or Skype

> In that case yes, it would make sense to temporarily show the tray as
> we do when an icon is added to the tray. The problem is that tray
> icons are completely under application control (they are really just
> tiny application windows), so we simply don't know that the icon has
> changed.

I feared a similar response. Unfortunately third-party applications have 
their own notification system and often do not see them and that forces 
me to keep the tray icon always visible.

> > 2. Show contextual information status icon a popover-style design. in 
> > the window title/header bar by default.
>
> I'm really not sure what the suggestion is, but:
> - headerbars are part of the application, we can't change them from 
> gnome-shell

headerbars?

> - putting status icons in a popover will prevent them from opening a 
> menu

Really I mean display the icon context menu in the system tray with a 
similar design to a popover (if it is a popover itself would be much 
better).

Cheers