Tray, Yay! Taskbar, Nay!

Harold L Hunt II huntharo@msu.edu
Fri May 2 17:05:00 GMT 2003


Randall,

It could certainly be an option, but it requires more than just hiding 
the taskbar entry.  Specifically, we have to come up with the actions on 
the tray icon that cause a switche to the Cygwin/XFree86 window.  Here 
are the options that come to mind:

1) A right-click menu item.  Give me some ideas about what the button 
should say.

2) An action assigned to a left click or a left double-click (currently 
assigned to the Exit confirmation window).  Obviously, a right click 
action is right out :)

3) ???

4) Profit!


Also, I need some thinking going into how the Cygwin/XFree86 window 
should behave when it loses the focus.  I mean, it isn't going to have 
an entry in the taskbar, so raising it to the top might be a little funny.

If I get a working description of how all these details (or at least 60% 
of them) should be handled, then I will likely code this feature myself. 
  If not, I probably won't touch it.

Harold

Randall R Schulz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Now that XWin puts an icon in the tray, can we have the option of 
> getting rid of the taskbar tab?
> 
> Or is it there already and escaping my attention?
> 
> Randall Schulz



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