systray spec modifications (RFC)

Jim Gettys jg at freedesktop.org
Fri Feb 17 15:40:09 EET 2006


On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 08:34 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 18:02 +0900, Carsten Haitzler wrote:
> > I've attached a test file with some suggested changes to the systray
> > spec (as
> > per the thread that was going on). comments sought. anyone? is there a
> > general
> > agreement this would be good?
> 
> I still think that storing pixel data in properties is ugly as hell,
> and Render images would be a much better fit, but since I cannot
> convince you that system trays will not play a prominent role on
> X terminals in the future, there is probably not much point in 
> continuing to belabor this point. After all, the EWMH has survived 
> fine with this ugly wart. 
> 

Ugh... I agree with you about this is poor taste indeed.
				- Jim





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