I am trying to put "Application Menu" org.kde.plasma.kicker at my tiling window manager which does implement XEmbed protocol of the X11, without starting the KDE system tray. For that, I can call the "Application Menu" plasmoid/applet from within command line by plasmawindowed org.kde.plasma.kicker, but it is not registered as a system tray object.
I found the API to create QSystemTrayIcon here, and an example here, but they all involve implementing the widget from scratch using C++ then compiling it. Is there any other way to make this widget window as a TrayIcon object?
This is the org.kde.plasma.kicker widget/applet/plasmoid started from the command line as a single window:
This is how a system tray icon (fcitx) is placed in my window manager (i3):
I would like to make this QWidget as a QSystemTrayIcon object so that it could be placed along with the fcitx icon in the tray, instead of a random place as a floating window:
Some discussion on the i3wm dev page: https://github.com/i3/i3/issues/2119#event-493172020
