> Or would you have to do it differently for every different Linux desktop environment or window manager that supported such a feature? Exactly. Unity has liba

> Or would you have to do it differently for every different Linux desktop environment or window manager that supported such a feature? Exactly. Unity has libappindicator, KDE has Plasma, GNOME Shell also has its own plugin API and there's still the old tray API in Gtk+ and Qt.