system tray basics

[Matthias Clasen]

On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 12:41 +0530, manish arya wrote:
> How does a system tray and GtkStausIcon interact?
> Does GtkStausIcon saves the information to certain place and system
> tray picks it up form there OR they communicate using messages?
> Any help regarding this would be deeply appreciated?

The relevant specs are

http://standards.freedesktop.org/systemtray-spec/systemtray-spec-0.2.html
http://standards.freedesktop.org/xembed-spec/xembed-spec-0.5.html