[Geany] [PATCH] Minimize to system tray

[Harold Aling]

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On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:02:50 +0100, "Pierre Joye" <pierre.php at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Milan Babuskov
> <milan.babuskov at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 9:45 AM, Harri Koskinen
> <geany_fi at fastmonkey.org> wrote:
>>  >  I've no idea whether this is useful at all to Geany users other than
> me.
>>
>>  It looks very usable for Windows users. On Linux, I'm not so sure. For
>>  example, I'm using IceWM on Linux and moving Geany (or any other app)
>>  to tray is as simple as: right click the Geany taskbar entry, select
>>  'Tray icon' option. That's all. I didn't use KDE for a while, but I
>>  believe it has a similar option.
> 
> It can be useful on windows (or linux too o be honest).
> 
> By the way, for the windows users:
> 
> http://www.teamcti.com/trayit/trayit.htm
> 
> Cheers,
> --
> Pierre

IMHO, these kind of features don't belong in an application that doesn't
add any extra actions to the systray icon, such as status or if you got new
mail.

If you do want to minimize an app to the systray, you can use your window
manager or use Alltray[1].


-H-

[1] http://alltray.sourceforge.net/