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

[Éric]

On 09/09/15 03:50, Philipp A. wrote:
> but this model is a classical server/client thing:
>
>   * your system update notifier checks if there are updates and allows
>     you to launch an (independent) updater
>   * your torrent downloader downloads torrents in the background and
>     allows you to lauch a GUI to interact with the queue (maybe it
>     allows multiple different clients)
>   * the CUPS server interacts with your printers. a notification icon
>     allows you to see the status of running jobs and to launch a print
>     queue application and printer config dialog
>


Exactly. I'm just trying to show the user that from his/her perspective, 
there's a relationship between that window which just opened or closed, 
and that icon in the tray/notify/indicator area. If the relationsip 
can't be established or detected by the window manager (or the wayland 
compositor, or whatever) then there's no little zoom animation showing 
it, that's all.


> all of those aren’t cases where the client you open “goes to” the 
> notification area once you close the window. you simply close some GUI 
> interacting with the server/daemon running in the background which is 
> represented by the notification area icon.


Of course the window doesn't actually "go to" or "come from" a tray 
icon. It comes from a client process creating and mapping the window, or 
closing/destroying it. Like i said, i'm just trying to show the user 
what makes sense from a *user's perspective*. For example, "You just 
closed the volume control window, here's where the volume icon is 
located." ...or, "This window that just popped up is from your update 
manager. Here's where the update icon is located."

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