RE: eggsystray.c

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Mon, 2003-04-07 at 13:51, martyn 2 russell bt com wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Has anything been improved on this since RedHat 8? - i.e. in RedHat 9? (i.e.
> in the gnome panel API/documentation)

No idea. The API should be basically the same, since GNOME-2.0 and
2.2 are API compatible.

> Plus, if there are plans, which version/milestone of GTK will there be
> support the sys tray in gnome/windows?

No current plans. The bug tracking this issue is:

 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105101

> Also, is it likely that the gnome panel API will be adopted somewhat into
> GTK for an implementation of a sys tray?

\The system tray is separate from the panel applet API. I don't see
putting the GNOME panel API into GTK+, because the concepts there are
specific to running in one particular desktop, while the system tray
works under both GNOME and KDE, and conceptually make sense for Windows
as well.

Since the GNOME panel API is specific to one desktop, it makes sense
for it to be in the GNOME libraries.

I'm not sure if that was what you were asking.

> I would be willing to help develop the WIN32 code for this, as I have done
> it before.

The first step would be to come up with an API proposal.

Regards,
                                         Owen