Bug 287791

Summary:	The telepathy contact list should be able to run from the system tray
Product:	[Unmaintained] telepathy	Reporter:	Adam Jimerson <vendion>
Component:	contactlist	Assignee:	Telepathy Bugs <kde-telepathy-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	kde, mklapetek
Priority:	NOR
Version:	git-latest
Target Milestone:	0.4.0
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
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Description Adam Jimerson 2011-11-28 22:13:05 UTC

Version:           git-latest (using KDE 4.7.3) 
OS:                Linux

The telepathy contact list should be able to run from the system tray, and not just from the plasma widget.  This could be a user opt in feature in the contact list settings.  This will help users who use Telepathy from other WM/DMs, have limited screen space (netbooks or other small devices), or don't want the widget on the desktop, or in the system tray when telepathy is not running.

Reproducible: Didn't try



Expected Results:  
A way for the contact list to use an icon in the system tray when running, much like Kopete, pidgin, empathy...

OS: Linux (x86_64) release 3.1.2-1-ARCH
Compiler: gcc

Comment 1 Adam Jimerson 2011-11-28 22:14:18 UTC

Sorry didn't mean to select kwhiteboard for the Component selection... can someone please fix?

Comment 2 Martin Klapetek 2011-11-29 13:42:54 UTC

Our current approach could use some more work, yes, but we don't have systray icon in plans. We aim at KDE Workspace integration and will soon introduce Nepomuk as a hard dependency, which will make using KDE Telepathy in other DMs rather impossible. 

But that's not really a problem since the accounts are shared between desktops, so in Gnome, you can use their Telepathy integration (Empathy) with the accounts set in KDE (and vice-versa). In the future you'll have even chat history shared between Gnome/KDE Telepathy.

We'll do however some improvements to the Presence plasmoid to be more clever and useful.

Comment 3 Adam Jimerson 2011-11-29 15:18:18 UTC

That saddens me to hear this, as Empathy has many annoyances that KDE Telepathy doesn't have (even in its early state that it is in) and would prefer to be able to use KDE Telepathy in Awesome WM as well as KDE.  Rather than dealing with Empathy accusing Gtalk of using "Self signed certificates" and ignoring the "Don't display this error any more" checkbox every 30 minutes.  If this is the path that KDE Telepathy devs want to go then I wish your team the best in your efforts.