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I would love the ability to send any window to system tray, even if they weren't designed for that. The windows usually have three behaviours: minimize, maximize/restore and close. I suggest another one: minimize to tray. The default behaviour, when application doesn't define how the tray icon should behave, should be a left click to restore the window (make it visible again) and maybe removing itself from the tray. Maybe a single click could restore/hide, maintaing the icon on tray and a double click would restore removing the tray icon.

+1 from me

There was an app called docker for KDE3. But I have no idea does it support KDE4 and will it be ported to KDE4.

Primoz wrote:There was an app called docker for KDE3. But I have no idea does it support KDE4 and will it be ported to KDE4.

It sort of works...but sometimes you just get a _very_ small window on the screen instead.

There is already a feature request in bugzilla: "Send to system tray" item in window menu

Kryten2X4B wrote:

Primoz wrote:There was an app called docker for KDE3. But I have no idea does it support KDE4 and will it be ported to KDE4.

It sort of works...but sometimes you just get a _very_ small window on the screen instead.

That sounds like a known problem with the Plasma systray, which sometimes does not catch systray windows. (In fact, systray icons are always windows, but the systray transfers them to its own area via XEmbed.) It seems to only appear with KDE 3 applications, for example KNetworkManager is not picked up by the tray on my system very often.

majewsky wrote:That sounds like a known problem with the Plasma systray, which sometimes does not catch systray windows. (In fact, systray icons are always windows, but the systray transfers them to its own area via XEmbed.) It seems to only appear with KDE 3 applications, for example KNetworkManager is not picked up by the tray on my system very often.

That might be a part of the problem, but I think there's more to it than that. Why? Because I only get (or got really, since I've now uninstalled it) the problem with kdocker. Granted, I only use(d) two KDE3 programs that wants to use the systray and the other one has no similar problem - the other one being Gimper (which I still think should be ported to KDE4...)

I think about an option to hide all windows from any application. How it should work? We send one window to system tray. When we click on the system tray icon we switch between many modes, like: show only hidden in system tray windows, hide all windows of this app, show all windows from this app, show only windows from this app.

+1, but how to vote for it ?

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