What's the use case for tray icons?
>>101243247Easy access, and you can know some of the apps that run in the background and turn them off quickly
system related or killer apps in the backgroundbackground app is what you need to be on all the time.purge one time configurables, one time actors/updaters, centres of burocracy etc
>>101243247Notification counters for different apps.
>>101243247So important icons stay always visible and not as important icons can be neatly tucked away?
>>101243247Please don't be an MS engineer who thinks he has some great idea and is about to ruin it for everyone.
>>101243247>2016
>>101243247To let it's users know what is open in the background and is draining the CPU cycles and hogging up the RAM.
>>101243672You don't need to know about background applications.
>>101243247unironically completely outdated concept and ebasedi was right to remove them
>>101243831Yes you do, that's why task manager exists.
>>101243247Quickly seeing the apps you have running with a GUI indicator that you can click on and interact with to perform an action or modify a setting.
What's the alternative? There is no none
>>101243247Most of it is a bunch of bloat
>>101244390Tastmanager for windows is some much better than linux
>>101244573service manager
>>101244714Which you would want displayed so you can see what's running? That's a tray.
>>101243247graphical interfaces to user services. duh.
>>101244721it would be nice if it could also start services and provide a unified interface for stopping them
