Re: eggsystray.c

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Mon, 2003-04-07 at 04:47, martyn 2 russell bt com wrote:
> Am I right in assuming this is part of libegg?
> 
> Also, I have noticed that the NEW version of GAIM (0.60) uses this code to
> put an icon in the toolbar (in gnome). - This also looks like this was the
> way that RedHat went for their update app.  I too have used it and with in
> minutes had a tray icon solution for my application.  Is this going to be
> used in GTK / GNOME in some way at some point?

My guess is that EggSystray in it's current form is unlikely to end
up in GTK+ proper. We'd probably want any GTK+ API to be compatible
with the Win32 API which is much more limited ... I think it only
allows a fixed icon, instead of arbitrary drawing and handling of
events.

Regards,
                                                  Owen