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We have many applications that are in the SystemTray, but there is no need to occupy space on the screen.

Netbooks are popular for small screens, we need to save space.

Please include the option to hide everything, but there is no need to click to see what is in the SystemTray, when passing the mouse over, which is extended automatically and remove the mouse that disguise again.

We need to develop a desktop more dynamic, taking space and making it simple and fluid.

Well you can hide any icons in SystemTray in settings.
But idea to have a popup instead of clicking over arrow is nice

The popup is great idea and any simple animation(like in XP) would be also good when hiding/showing the systray applications.

I think the new system tray protocol will support having different system tray plasmoids with different features. So I think your idea could be implemented as a separate system tray plasmoid.

The new systray protocol will also have some fading effects instead of appearing and disappearing?

Considering it supports ARGB visuals, I see no reason why it couldn't.

And lets not forget that the new system also loads system tray icons *instantly*. You can only expect all KDE apps to use it in 4.4, though... only a few use it in 4.3, for testing purposes.

In KDE 4.4.1 the operation remains the same.

KDE4 will be a system that does not evolve?

bigbruno, these sorts of comments are not constructive, please stop making them in every one of your brainstorm ideas. KDE 4.4 was primarily aimed at polishing and improving existing parts of KDE. Nevertheless, there were numerous significant changes in 4.4 (such as networked plasmoids). 4.5 has even more significant changes.

The fact that your particular wishlist items were not implemented does not mean that nothing happened. There is limited time and manpower available, and developers have to prioritize. Those priorities are likely not going to always match yours, which means the particular features you want are not always going to get implemented right away, if at all. That is simply how the world works.

Bumping your ideas will not change that and will only get people annoyed at you. We have a specific way we deal with ideas and if everyone bumped their ideas like this it would result in utter chaos. I have literally dozens of ideas, only a handful have been implemented and half of those I did myself. Unfortunately you are not entitled to have your ideas implemented unless you do them yourself, and even then they may not be accepted. KDE is a community-driven project, which means decisions are made by the community and not at the whim of any one person.

It is ironic that you talk about there being no evolution just before a planetkde post about a major change to the way the system tray works:
http://www.notmart.org/index.php/Softwa ... ray_change