Re: Emacs as a desktop environment

[Tom Tromey]

Ted> No, that's going the other way.  I want an Emacs instance to *be* the
Ted> system tray (and workspace indicator, and basically everything that
Ted> makes a desktop environment except the window manager and the
Ted> applications themselves).

Ah.

Ted> Can the system tray interface be implemented
Ted> as a protocol or does it need C code?

I believe tray icons still need C code, or at least some proxy; e.g., it
could probably be done by embedding a bunch of PyGtk code in the elisp
(my approach is hacked up version of "zenity").  In the Gnome 3 shell
maybe the same effect can be had via javascript, I'm not sure.

Tom