Re: docking

[Anders Carlsson <andersca gnu org>]

On Sat, 2002-05-11 at 08:26, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> mallum <breakfast 10 am> writes: 
> > If this is the case how does the window ID get passed to the embedder
> > in gnome2 ? 
> 
> A couple notes, one is that the system tray is separate from applets;
> applets have to be bonobo components. Two, on xdg-list we decided not
> to support the balloon-message part of the system tray spec, in case
> you were trying to use that.

The version I wrote in libegg supports balloon messages, but we could
/should probably make this a GNOME extension then.

> 
> > Does the final release of gnome2 plan to implement the system tray
> > protocol ?
> 
> There's prototype code for a system tray in the "libegg" module on
> GNOME CVS, but it probably will not make 2.0.0. Perhaps a subsequent
> release will contain the system tray.
> 

The egg tray(!) won't make 2.0.0 because I'm using the multihead
features of gtk+ 2.2 in the implementation.

Anders