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The eggtray problem - Johan Svedberg

Johan Svedberg — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 20:27:06 +0200

The reason I didn't switch to gtk status icon is that it doesn't support "middle-clicks", while eggtrayicon does.

The eggtray problem - Non ou pseudo

Non ou pseudo — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 23:09:26 +0200

Open source projects have the weirdest names...

The eggtray problem - Des

Des — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:10:27 +0200

Also, the duplication is ment to be there, since that's the policy on using stuff from the egg library (a kind-of-experimental library in gnome), so it's not weird everyone has his own copy.

It's far from ideal, but that lays in the lack of a decent systray gtk implementation so far (or arguably, still).

For reference:
http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/libegg/...

The eggtray problem - toupeira

toupeira — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:29:07 +0200

also see bug #420247 (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugr...)

The eggtray problem - Julien Danjou

Julien Danjou — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:54:59 +0200

So it looks like GTK+ lacks a good system tray support, that's bad.

Still the solution is not to use eggtray IMHO but to depends on GTK >= 2.10 or to disable systray sypport on older GTK.

And probably fix the GTK implementation so it can get any widget!

The eggtray problem - Philipp Kern

Philipp Kern — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:04:54 +0200

The GtkStatusIcon is pretty new actually. So it can be used more or less just now, with a dependency on Gtk 2.10 of which some refrain.

And the widget point raised is also an important one, albeit depending on the usage of the tray icon...

The eggtray problem - Will Thompson

Will Thompson — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:01:55 +0200

Over in Pidgin-land, one reason that we don't use GtkStatusIcon is that we don't depend on Gtk 2.10 yet.

(Whether or not we should is a different matter. :-))

The eggtray problem - Rémi Vanicat

Rémi Vanicat — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:56:02 +0200

I don't know if it is the only reason, but it happen that the native GTK+ system tray implementation is less powerfull than the eggtray one :
* The eggtray is a full widget container, you can put in it any widget you wich, for exemple an eventbox, and so react to any gtk signal/X event you may want to look at.
* The GtkStatusIcon is not a widget nor a widget container, so you have no choise but to only react to the three existing signal for it : "activate" "popup-menu" and "size-changed"

EWMH and XRandR - Joachim Breitner

Joachim Breitner — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 22:44:31 +0100

Funny, while you were posting that, I was trying to improve the EWMH support for xmonad, and were hitting the same problems as you did.

My best approximation was mark the currently focused workspace ("desktop") as the current one, and display the windows from other visible workspaces in the same desktop EWMH wise (which means that that window stays then empty in the panel). Probably hard to explan, actually

Let me know if you have some great hack to force EWMH to do what you want.