> I see a couple of docks using atrocious boxes of blurred notification
> icons, with buggy right-click context menus that sometimes won't
> even close when they lose focus.
The blurry icons surely come from the associated program, which does not ship with the rightly sized icons. If the tray is correctly implemented, the application is notified when the size of the notification area changes, and it's up to that application to replace its tray icon by a more adapted one. If the application doesn't do that, then it must be patched, but in any case the problem is not caused by the dock or any other tray mechanism. And if it's correctly implemented, there should not be any problem with popup menus :-)
> I see a couple of docks using atrocious boxes of blurred notification
> icons, with buggy right-click context menus that sometimes won't
> even close when they lose focus.
The blurry icons surely come from the associated program, which does not ship with the rightly sized icons. If the tray is correctly implemented, the application is notified when the size of the notification area changes, and it's up to that application to replace its tray icon by a more adapted one. If the application doesn't do that, then it must be patched, but in any case the problem is not caused by the dock or any other tray mechanism. And if it's correctly implemented, there should not be any problem with popup menus :-)