Julien Danjou 10/3/2008

The eggtray problem

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The article critiques the problematic 'eggtrayicon' code, a 2002 implementation of the Freedesktop.org system tray protocol for GTK+. It highlights how this buggy C file is copied into many applications, causing issues, and advocates for using native GTK+ system tray implementations instead. It references patches sent to projects like mail-notification and Audacious.

The eggtray problem

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