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

[Eike Hein]

On 09/08/2015 08:44 PM, Éric Tremblay wrote:
> 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.


Tray icons are not delegates for specific windows. KDE apps don't
minimize to the tray (though some will keep running and display a
status notifier item in the tray area even when all windows are
closed).



Cheers,
Eike