On Tue, 27 Sep 2016, at 20:42, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > On Tue, 2016-09-27 at 16:05 +0200, Jan Niklas Hasse wrote: > > While it makes sense for some applications, like email, it's rather > > confusing for something like an IRC client: I don't want it to run at > > start up, but I also want to be able to let it run in the background > > without a window. Without the tray I have NO idea if my IRC client is > > currently running (without using `ps aux` or something like that). > > You can: > (a) start it an minimize it - it appears in the tray.
It also appears in the window lists (Activities overwiew or Alt+Tab list) and I don't want that. > - or - > (b) have it start at startup. Quoting myself: "I don't want it to run at start up" > A package could very well choose to contain a shell extension if it > needs some persistent custom presentation - a path exists to solve that > problem. This will only work for GNOME Shell users. Why should a developer care if a tray icon covers nearly everything else (Windows, Mac, MATE, XFCE, ...)? A solution for Gtk and Qt is needed which will fallback to a tray icon. libappindicator comes close. _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
