Re: Some thoughts about window management

[Ikke <eikke eikke com>]

On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 19:56 +0300, Yaron Tausky wrote:
> The idea is to use this function with my other proposition (i.e.
> adding
> a WM hint that creates an icon-only window button) in order to REPLACE
> the software-provided notification area icon. Many people (including
> me)
> consider docking applications to the notification area an ugly hack
> that
> should be solved (this problem also exists in Windows, and I suspect
> we
> accidentally ported it to UNIX desktops by copying the way Windows
> handles these things).
As long as those "little buttons" are grouped together at the left or
right edge of the window bar, so you don't get something like 

L L N N N L N L

(L = little button, N = normal)

A proof of concept of this could be coded not by adding some new WM
hint, but extending the window list so it implements the fdo
Notification Area spec (as an icon server, or however that's called)

Just my .02

Ikke