Proposed: systemtray-spec

[Havoc Pennington]

On Sat, 2004-08-14 at 09:41, Mike Hearn wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-08-08 at 23:46 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > I'm not aware of issues with XEMBED itself (other than "systray should
> > be a notification system that doesn't hardcode displaying a widget") -
> > afaik XEMBED works for displaying a widget, if that's what we wanted to
> > do. But I agree that we don't.
> 
> I implemented it for Wine (though the patch is not yet merged). It's OK,
> though it's a bit easy to fall foul of race conditions. I had a problem
> with this though that's more to do with win32 integration, but I noticed
> that Skype *also* had a race-prone implementation. As Qt doesn't support
> it natively I guess they wrote their own code to do it, or used the
> QXEmbed stuff and added a bit on top. But sometimes their tray icon
> doesn't dock.
> 
> I'm afraid I don't have any ideas for how to make it better though :)

Are these races in XEMBED or in the tray stuff to locate the widget to
embed?

Havoc