Proposal: clean way of animating windows to/from system tray icons

[Éric Tremblay]

On 09/08/15 14:03, Jasper St. Pierre wrote:
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> As far as I'm aware, Windows does not allow minimizing to tray icon 
> geometry
>

Indeed it doesn't. That's up to the application to register a tray icon 
(or other similar system such as indicator, etc) and use that icon to 
interact with the user. It's pretty much the same in other graphic 
environments, in one form or another. Microsoft were just the first to 
call it a "tray".

My proposal doesn't change that, or the way it works. It simply adds 
information that lets the window manager know where these icons are, so 
that it can do an "open" or "close" animation to/from this icon when 
appropriate - for example, if you close your IM client and the process 
is still running and it has a tray icon. Or if a process that has a tray 
icon (such as your IM client) decides to suddenly pop up a window. In 
such cases, the "tray" icon, or "indicator" icon, "notify" icon, 
whatever you call it, if it exists, should be used instead of 
_NET_WM_ICON_GEOMETRY. This is why i developed this solution.