Hidden panel icons

[Anj Tuesday]

On Friday 27 May 2011 12:43:10 Neil Winchurst wrote:
> Clay Weber wrote:
> >>> The application itself needs to be designed to have a systray icon.
> >>> Firefox, for example does not so it won't be available in there. You
> >>> might try looking at various Taskbar replacements such as smooth tasks
> >>> and fancy tasks. These iirc have more options and can iconify an
> >>> application's taskbar entry
> >>> 
> >>> or try the quicklaunch plasma widget, whiich is probably more what you
> >>> are looking to use.
> >> 
> >> You can give any application a system tray icon by checking the "Place
> >> in system tray" option in the menu editor. (But I'm not sure they can
> >> be hidden.)
> 
> Not one of the options when I try that.

Odd... then again, I don't know when they added that. (KDE 4.6.3 here.) 

> The idea behind my question
> was that there are some programs that I use only occasionally and
> which I therefore do not need to have either on the desktop or the
> panel. Example is gnupg. (That one was automatically placed in the
> hidden icons list for me).
> 
> I know that I can use the menus for this. It just seemed like a good
> idea to place such items among the hidden icons list. This would then
> not clutter up the panel with items that I rarely use and would be
> quicker than using the menus when I did want to run it.
> 
> As I said, it is not that important. I will leave it all alone and use
> the menus as and when.

I think the tray is for stuff that's actually running, to display status
and notifications. But if you're using the fancy (non-"menu") application
launcher, adding an application to the Favourites tab will give you pretty
much that: the launchers won't add panel clutter, and they'll be a single
click away.

Anja