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snixembed - proxy StatusNotifierItems as XEmbedded systemtray-spec icons
-electron has recently dropped support for the old XEmbed-based system tray
+INFO: recent electron versions [supports XEmbed tray icons again for now](https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/23674).
+This means snixembed is of limited use. It will however be maintained in case
+electron or other software eventually drops their XEmbed support again.
+
+Previously, electron dropped support for the old XEmbed-based system tray
protocol, while many status bars for simple X window managers still do no not
support newer protocols like [StatusNotifierItem](https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/StatusNotifierItem/).
This project is basically a dirty hack using deprecated GTK+ StatusIcons to
proxy this new specification to the old one.
+As newer electron versions support the old XEmbed-based tray icons again,
+snixembed is currently not very useful, unless you rely on those old versions.
+(or rely on chromium tray icons, which still only support StatusNotifierItem)
+Most other software supports XEmbed icons as a fallback.
+
While snixembed works fine with most setups, some bars and DEs provide their
own optional SNI support, which should be preferred when available.