Systray (was Re: F22 / KDE5)

[Kevin Kofler]

Emilio Recio wrote:
> But the point that I am trying to make is that KF5 should have provided
> for a transitional phase for developers. Both side-by-side.

The whole lifetime of KDE/Plasma 4 was the transitional phase!

But the problem is that the application developers are also dependent on the 
toolkit developers, and there, the GTK+ developers stubbornly refuse to 
natively support the Status Notifier Item (SNI) standard. You can use 
libappindicator, but it is not a drop-in replacement for the GTK+ systray 
classes, and the GTK+ developers don't recommend its use. (There may or may 
not also be other issues with it.) Other non-Qt toolkits also don't support 
SNI, usually because nobody bothered adding support for it.

        Kevin Kofler