Comment 24 for bug 391056

im not quite sure if this is what you were hitting on, but half way through
reading, I thought it would at least be useful to make items that normally
skip the taskbar, simply not. Then they would at least display in docky and
you can organize them to the right or wherever.

Kinda like a quick fix instead of using stalonetray (which i find to always
be a little buggy)

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 8:56 AM, The Fiddler <email address hidden> wrote:

> On Mon, 2009-11-30 at 13:10 +0000, Andrea Cimitan wrote:
> > 2009/11/30 Cyberkilla <email address hidden>:
> > >
> > > For instance, you'd have a useful - but unintrusive - single docklet
> icon...
> > > When you click on the icon, the tray icons would slide in, just as the
> weather forecast does.
> > >
> > The purpose of notification area icons is to have them always visible,
> > if you hide them then they become useless :)
>
> Well, the notification area has been consistently abused and has moved
> from the original concept (transient notifications) to an
> easy-to-implement, cross-DE panel integration area. For example,
> applications like Banshee, Rythmbox, Transmission, etc do *not* belong
> to the notification area - yet there they are. (Email notifications on
> the other hand, do).
>
> Andrea's idea is very similar to the approach taken by Windows 7, which
> works surprisingly well (there, I said it!) Windows has always had the
> "tray icon proliferation" issue that has started to affect our
> notification areas. Their solution was to add a single "notification
> button" to their dock (sorry, taskbar), which displays notifications in
> a pop-up bubble once clicked. The user can also configure notifications
> as "always visible" (outside the bubble) or "always hidden" (inside the
> bubble).
>
> For the shake of discussion, I'd propose a similar system only taken one
> step further: notifications demanding attention should be promoted from
> the bubble onto docky automatically. Everything else should appear
> either in the bubble or onto docky, depending on a per-icon preference
> (default is in the bubble, except for specific important icons like
> battery or network manager).
>
> How does this sound? I can provide mockup screenshots if necessary.
>
> --
> Implement a notification area in Docky
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/391056
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> Status in GNOME Do: Won't Fix
> Status in Docky: Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> The summary explains itself: docky needs a notification area docklet.
>