Status Notifiers are the basis for Ubuntu's AppIndicatora, as a way to drop the legacy way to do system tray icons which was via xembed. Dropping of xembed icons has been known for months and is kind of crucial given that its an X-specification (hence the name. http://standards.freedesktop.org/xem...ec-latest.html) and now Qt and KDE both support Wayland which wouldn't have access to it. So you either support Wayland and X and tell people "Well your application will work under X, but not Wayland, which is fine since we support both.. but most of our users are really on Wayland so using xembed is kind of counter productive.." or you just say "Screw it. Everyone use Status Notifiers. They work everywhere."
Martin's post on it: http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blo...n-plasma-next/
Marco Martin's post on it: http://notmart.org/blog/2014/06/syst...-next-and-gtk/
(Martin, feel free to correct me on anything here, its just what ive picked up on reading the mailing lists and dev posts)
Martin's post on it: http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blo...n-plasma-next/
Marco Martin's post on it: http://notmart.org/blog/2014/06/syst...-next-and-gtk/
(Martin, feel free to correct me on anything here, its just what ive picked up on reading the mailing lists and dev posts)
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