Peter John Hartman dixit (2010-01-03, 13:51): > I agree w/r/t removing the status feature in dwm. If it isn't a > trayer, then what is its purpose? Of course, primary motivation is > that an alternative standalone trayer can do whatever it is that the > status feature is doing anyway (or so it seems). Hence, it is > superfluous.
The tray “protocol” itself is a totally borken idea of the useless WIMP paradigm. A workaround for a workaround. Makes even less sense in the tagged dwm environment. As to the status bar itself, it serves a far better purpose than the crappy tray (a useless 16x16 or so pixel area per program), for you can actually write *text*, of all things, in the statusbar. The humankind developed *writing* to move on from the hieroglyphs and I don't really understand the urge to discard all the years of development and get back to primitive pictograms for conveying information. If your apps are crappy or unhackable enough that you can't dig interesting info from them (like unread IM/mail messages and the like) and display that info as human-readable text in the status bar, than it's perhaps high time to look for alternatives. BTW: > I agree w/r/t removing the status feature in dwm. Says who? End of rant. -- [a]
