Re: [Kde-accessibility] System tray with a keyboard?

On Monday 10 March 2008 11:43:44 Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On 10/03/2008, Sebastian Sauer <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Dotan Cohen wrote:
> >  > How can I access the system tray application with the keyboard? I
> >  > sometimes need to open Amarok or Kopete, which sit in the system tray
> >  > but not in the task bar so I cannot Alt-Tab into them. Right-clicking
> >  > the KPowerSave icon to suspend to RAM is something that I'd like to be
> >  > able to do with the keyboard as well.
> >
> > Open "System Settings" and choose there under "Keyboard and Mouse"
> >  the "Keyboard Shortcuts" (in KControl it's under "Regional &
> > Accessibility"). There you are able to define Command Shortcuts for
> > Applications. If you assign e.g. F1 to Amarok then pressing F1 will
> > either start and show the Amarok window or if already started and hidden
> > e.g. in the systray, bring it to front.
>
> While that is a good solution specific to Amarok, what I really need
> to know is how to access the system tray apps in a general sense,
> without anticipating in advance what I may or may not need. Or is the
> mouse the only way to control system tray applications?
>
> Dotan Cohen

Yes, I believe that is not implemented yet, but plasma has some todo's for key
binding control in general (currently no way to rotate, resize, move a plasmoi
d without the mouse either.  I'll cross-post this to their list so someone tha
t knows can reply.

Jeremy