Pablo Sanchez posted on Thu, 15 Dec 2011 08:02:28 -0700 as excerpted: > On 12/15/2011 07:58 AM, Jerome Yuzyk wrote: >> >> What determines the order of icons in the System Tray?
> From what I've observed, it's when the process places itself in the > tray. > > Perhaps if you ran a script which serially started the System Tray > items, you'd get a consistent placement. Your (PS's) experience agrees with mine -- I think it's order of when the app gets it into the tray, as newly started apps always get placed first, with older ones sliding down (my systray is vertically oriented) and then over to a new column as necessary. But it's a bit more complex than that. First, the tray has prefs for always visible, hidden, or "auto" on normal tray apps, along with a whole list of kde-built-in services (the ones that show up with transparent background line-art icons) that it can start in the tray, or not. The default seems to be "auto", which will almost certainly mess up the order as icons appear and disappear based on activity, so switching each to to either always visible or (always) hidden should help. Second, as you mentioned, enough is happening at startup, and there's enough difference in startup time depending on what is cached vs what has to be read in from disk before it starts, that the order may still appear to be random. As you suggested, setting up a script to start things up in order, perhaps with a few sleep <s> lines placed between started commands to give one time to get its tray icon up before the next item starts, should help with that. FWIW, the order seems pretty consistent here, but that's at least partly because I have all items set to always visible (I don't like icons hiding on me! =:^), and probably partly due to what I run, as well. The system- tray device notifier is always first -- I have only that and the notifications icon, which always takes a column to itself, set to run from the extra items list. Next is klipper, a kde system service that's not (yet?) in the optional extra systray items list. Then comes the qt4 based qmpdclient, the mpd (music player damon) controller I use in kde (tho I also use the mpd-now-playing plasmoid from kdelook, based on kde's own now-playing plasmoid, but for mpd users, but it's not systray based). Next is the superkaramba icon, as I have a superkaramba theme running (plasma is supposed to pickup superkaramba themes and supports running them natively, but it never sees this one, so I have to run it in superkaramba itself). Then there's my claws-mail instance, and my claws- mail-feeds instance. That's all my regular systray icons. But I have other apps that can run in the systray too, if I configure them to do so, and if I have them so configured, when I launch them, they bump all the other icons (but for the notifier, which as I said gets its own column, for whatever reason) down a notch. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde-linux mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-linux. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
