On Mon, 15 Oct 2012, Christian Klukas wrote: > On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 9:46 AM, miqlas <miq...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> The more Skype instance was my fault. If you start Skype, it doenst >> check if there is any another running instance, and it will start a >> new one. You can found the old one on the system tray. But there is no >> tray support in CDE, thats why you cannot se the running instances. >> System Tray support also must have feature. >> There is a mockup for that: >> http://kepfeltoltes.hu/121015/cde_systray_www.kepfeltoltes.hu_.png >> What do you think about this? > > About tray icons, it will be at some point essential to support such new > interface standards. I feel this "side drawer" in this particular form may > be a bit unintuitive. Eventually there could be a solution that directly > fits into the existing GUI approach, e.g. having the last icon and "drawer" > as a dynamic list of current tray icons, the main icon could show the last > selected icon. > Another approach which could eventually fit well, would be to show the tray > icons on the desktop as individual items, similar to iconized apps.
I agree with Christian: the side drawer is probably not the most usable alternative if only because it would be (AFAIK) the only tray in CDE which opens sideways. Is the bottom-left of the four icon spots surrounding the workspace switcher used? It's empty in all of the builds of CDE I've done, but I seem to recall it being used in the 90s-era systems that I've toyed with. I ask, because if not, perhaps that would be a good spot for a 16x16 icon which spawns a tray widget? Obviously one would still need to actually write said tray widget... -R ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic APM Deploy New Relic app performance management and know exactly what is happening inside your Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and .NET app Try New Relic at no cost today and get our sweet Data Nerd shirt too! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic-dev2dev _______________________________________________ cdesktopenv-devel mailing list cdesktopenv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cdesktopenv-devel
