Systray

[claydoh]

One thing I'd like to mention on the systray subject.
We used to have a Notifications icon that was a little circle with the number of notifications inside it. It was great.
Now we have the Bell. Compared to that, basically a deer with bad eyes.
I looked and looked for the circle one, can't find it. Any idea how to get it?

The icons used are part of the plasma style.
Added ones are stored in
~/.local/share/plasma/desktoptheme/<theme name>/icons/

Stock themes should be in
/usr/share/plasma/desktoptheme/<theme name>/icons/

I am afk at the moment and cannot recall which addon theme I am using but it isn't Breeze, and my notifications icons are the blue circles. I am guessing one can take them icon(s) and place them in a different theme.



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[Don B. Cilly]

I got my hidden Yakuake icon :-) By pressing F12, but I have it.
If I autostart Yakuake it tends to crash my Plasma. Which I'm sure is my system's fault, not Plasma's or Yakuake's. It's a bit glitchy, I transferred settings from my old machine and... you know ;-)

One thing I'd like to mention on the systray subject.
We used to have a Notifications icon that was a little circle with the number of notifications inside it. It was great.
Now we have the Bell. Compared to that, basically a deer with bad eyes.
I looked and looked for the circle one, can't find it. Any idea how to get it?

[Beerislife]

I've rearranged mine slightly. I like it better this way.

[Don B. Cilly]

a tray icon is not useful for my particular use.

Nor for mine, but a hidden one is :-)

[Beerislife]

Nothing special here, just I prefer Better Inline Clock over the default KDE clock. I have no use for the IM Messenger icon on the Panel.

[claydoh]

Oh yeah... where is the fairly new option for a Yakuake systray icon? I want it... :-)

I mean, if I do press F12, I get it, and I can hide it... but I'd have to startup Yakuake... OK, I'll find out :-)

Hamburger menu >> Configure >> Behavior
F12 is a definite ingrained muscle memory, a tray icon is not useful for my particular use.

[Fred47]

Normally I autohide my taskbar, so I don't pay a lot of attention to it. In fact I see two new items, Night Color Control and Vaults. Maybe I'll do some research and deal with them later. Otherwise stock Kubuntu except for KDE Connect

[Don B. Cilly]

Oh yeah... where is the fairly new option for a Yakuake systray icon? I want it... :-)

I mean, if I do press F12, I get it, and I can hide it... but I'd have to startup Yakuake... OK, I'll find out :-)

[claydoh]

I am a minimalist of sorts. I can't stand having the systray become too wide or have big icons. I definitely can't stand single-row, full sized icons, which goes back at least to the KDE 3 days. So I have it semi-stock, with a few things set to "always hidden" so I only see them if I decide to. Bluetooth, networking, etc. The rest I leave to pop up as needed. I included the Event Calendar widget opened, which replaces the stock clock and calendar, so I can see the calendar, weather, and the timer (which I use daily) as needed. So what is on my screenshot is the normal, important stuff at the moment. I really should give my external drive a permanent mount point, so I can be rid of the always visible Removable Devices entry, until I am actually using it for USB sticks and such.




Oh, yeah, I just remembered to turn of Yakuake's fairly new option for a systray icon.

[Don B. Cilly]

How I have my system tray.



"Documents" shows a quick preview of recent (in the sense, sorted by Modified) Documents.
Now, the hidden Icons:



I have the Updates one set to "never show". I use my own scripts for updates, and if I want to know, I just click on the hidden icons triangle. Unobtrusive.
How do you have yours? I'm sure there's some ideas I can use :-)