Re: A cross-platform status icon api

[James Henstridge <james jamesh id au>]

Matthias Clasen wrote:

>- There are quite a few details which the implementation currently 
>  doesn't handle currently:
>  * the bubble needs to be repositioned if the user changes panel    
>    orientation
>  * the bubble "stem" needs to be redrawn if the tray icon moves 
>    because another status icon appears/disappears or because the
>    tray moves inside the panel
>  * Concurrent notifications from different status icons should probably
>    avoid each other
>  * if the panel is not sticky, does the bubble go away if the user
>    switches to a desktop without the panel ?
>  
>
These issues sound like they would be easiest to address with
cooperation from the notification area itself (which I guess is what
happens on Windows).  Maybe some extensions to the trayicon spec would
be appropriate here.

James.