Re: -Rootless AND -NoDecoration

[Jehan <nahor at bravobrava dot com>]

Harold L Hunt II wrote:

> Now, from the perspective of building a correct application, can't you
> see that it would be incredibly non-standard of us to allow
> Cygwin/XFree86 to not have a taskbar icon?  No other Windows 
> application that needs to be minimized/restored/closed has that 
> behavior. Typically, only applications that are either closed or open 
> are in the system tray.
Actually, that's not entirely true. The Windows Task Manager can be 
"Hidden When Minimized". WinAmp and Trillian (given, they are not 
typical Windows applications) have this feature too. I think, most 
"persistant" applications (running from login to logout) can be moved to 
the systray instead of the taskbar one way or another.

Maybe XWin could benefit from such a feature. It would be interesting 
for people who start XWin at login and never exit it until logout to 
minimize XWin in the systray when they don't actively use any X 
application. That way, XWin would not use precious space in the taskbar.

>   Can you see my point?  I suppose you could code such a feature if 
> you wanted that did not change the default behavior, but I'm not sure 
> how much use it would be to others...
I could try to modify/update my systray patch to that effect if I find 
some time to do it.

	Jehan