Re: [Gaim-devel] Re: gaim docklet

[Mark G. <ma...@am...>]

Hello,

Is the tray icon in the CVS rpm? Does is work in RH8?


On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 16:52:40 +0100
Robert McQueen <rob...@de...> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 02:35:40PM -0700, Joe Barnett wrote:
> > I spoke w/ you on #gaim the other day under the name 'sweeze' about my
> > gaim buddy list closing whenever i switched workspaces.  I've narrowed
> > it down to the fact that it only happens when I have the docklet plugin
> > loaded, so it must somehow be the docklet's fault.  I was wondering if
> > you have looked into this yet or not, or if you could tell me generally
> > where this would be taking place (i think its in eggtrayicon.c, but not
> > completely sure) that I might be able to at least disable this behavior
> > for myself.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > -Joe
> 
> This is not eggtrayicon.c. =)
> 
> When the docklet (or nowadays, tray icon =) is visible, the plugin
> calls docklet_add in buddy.c to increment a counter, letting Gaim know a
> docklet is present. When it is no longer visible, docklet_remove is
> called, and the counter decremented. The presence of this variable
> basically changes the following behaviours:
>  * hide_buddy_list (used by eg the iconaway function) hides the blist
>    instead of minimising it
>  * close_buddy_list (used when you click the X on the blist) calls
>    hide_buddy_list instead of exiting Gaim
>  * the blist window is hidden when you minimise it (or specifically, it
>    gets a window status change event, and it was iconify)
> 
> In the course of writing this e-mail, I think I worked out the problem.
> When you change desktop with a wm, it's the same as iconifying all the
> visible windows, and de-iconifying all the ones on the desktop you
> selected. This hide-on-minimise code cannot currently (or maybe ever)
> distinguish whether it was user originated or WM originated, and so will
> probably be removed or made optional.
> 
> If this is the case, you should still be able to click the tray icon to
> raise the buddy list again. If it disappears when you can't see a tray
> icon, then this is a bug that needs further investigation. A good
> starting point in this case would be to watch the debug output (gaim -d
> 2>&1 | grep docklet) and to see if docklet_count is being incremented
> when Gaim starts up, even if a tray icon is not being displayed.
> 
> Hopefully this is not the case, and the buddy list disappearing when you
> switch desktop is just an inconvenience and not a permanant 'gaim
> disappeared' situation. I did try very hard to make this never happen -
> the hide-on-minimise code was a contributed patch anyway. :P
> 
> Regards,
> Rob
> 
> 
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