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The idea of hiding some icons is very nice. This idea would be completed if when you expand the systray you could setting to autohide after a few seconds.
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I don't really see the point, other that that's what Windows does.

If I expanded it, I actually like how it stays expanded until I press the button.

Same. I want it to do what I want, when I bloody well tell it to. I don't like how Windows presumes what you want to do every time you move your mouse, when that's not actually what you want at all.

Well I agree with the original poster. On a laptop I don't want half the task bar taken up by systray icons so I hide the non essential ones. Perhaps it should be an option to allow it to auto hide or not. Then everyone is happy

A more sophisticated autohiding would be very good.
Examples:
- Networking icon only shown if I do not have a connection or while a new connection is established.
- Battery-Applet-icon not appearing when I am plugged in.
- Kmix only to appear if an application is using sound.

markum wrote:A more sophisticated autohiding would be very good.
Examples:
- Networking icon only shown if I do not have a connection or while a new connection is established.
- Battery-Applet-icon not appearing when I am plugged in.
- Kmix only to appear if an application is using sound.

This will be possible with the new system tray implementation, where items can demand user's attention. http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Plasma ... Properties

I can understand how people might not want this, but I certainly do. If I wanted to see the icons all the time, I wouldn't have hidden them in the first place. Making it an option, as the original post suggests, would be very useful in my opinion.

+1
I hate it when I always have to click the hide button each time I access the hidden icons...

-1 here, i really don't like this on windows, even more on kde

Hehehe - people said that KDE 3 was just too configurable - that people got confused by the options. I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one that likes configurability to the nth degree I'd vote +1 for options, -1 for the system thinking it knows my mind better than I do (autohiding without configurability).

Mamonetti wrote:-1 here, i really don't like this on windows, even more on kde

You wouldn't be required to use it.

any news for this idea ?