Hidden panel icons

[Neil Winchurst]

Clay Weber wrote:
>>>
>>> The application itself needs to be designed to have a systray icon.
>>> Firefox, for example does not so it won't be available in there. You
>>> might try looking at various Taskbar replacements such as smooth tasks
>>> and fancy tasks. These iirc have more options and can iconify an
>>> application's taskbar entry
>>>
>>> or try the quicklaunch plasma widget, whiich is probably more what you
>>> are looking to use.
>>
>> You can give any application a system tray icon by checking the "Place in
>> system tray" option in the menu editor. (But I'm not sure they can be
>> hidden.)
>>
Not one of the options when I try that. The idea behind my question 
was that there are some programs that I use only occasionally and 
which I therefore do not need to have either on the desktop or the 
panel. Example is gnupg. (That one was automatically placed in the 
hidden icons list for me).

I know that I can use the menus for this. It just seemed like a good 
idea to place such items among the hidden icons list. This would then 
not clutter up the panel with items that I rarely use and would be 
quicker than using the menus when I did want to run it.

As I said, it is not that important. I will leave it all alone and use 
the menus as and when.

Neil