Bug 110065

Summary: tray icons installed in arbitrary order
Product: [Unmaintained] kicker Reporter: Oliver Grimm <logistikka>
Component: systemtrayAssignee: Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: wishlist    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description Oliver Grimm 2005-08-02 23:58:28 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.4.1)
OS:                Linux

Whenever KDE is started, the tray icons are arranged in an arbitrary order. On my desktop, KGPG and KNetLoad are autostarted and sometimes the KGPG icon is at the left side of KNetLoad while sometimes it is on the right side. This might be annoying or unusual especially to a new KDE user.

IMO there should be a fixed order for tray icons. Though the order chosen does not matter at all, there should be ANY fixed order. An easy way of realizing this might be to sort the tray icons by their appplication name or by PID.
Comment 1 Martin von Gagern 2006-02-12 14:22:40 UTC 
Using PIDs to sort apps would seem a bad idea. Some security enhancements (e.g. grsecurity) might randomize PIDs to avoid certain attacks.
Comment 2 Andreas Kling 2006-09-02 16:06:14 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 132306 ***