tray: sort icons deterministically#4999
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Sort tray items deterministically instead of leaving the order up to the arrival time of D-Bus signals. Items whose key is listed in order-left or order-right are pinned to the respective edge in the configured order; everything else is placed between them in alphabetical order. For Chrome-based SNI items the tooltip text (up to the first ':') is used as the key so the ordering stays stable when the tooltip's status suffix changes. reverse-direction now reverses the alphabetical middle section only, so order-left / order-right keep their visual meaning regardless of its value.
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Sort tray items deterministically instead of leaving the order up to the arrival time of D-Bus signals. Items whose key is listed in order-left or order-right are pinned to the respective edge in the configured order; everything else is placed between them in alphabetical order.
For Chrome-based SNI items the tooltip text (up to the first ':') is used as the key so the ordering stays stable when the tooltip's status suffix changes.
reverse-direction now reverses the alphabetical middle section only, so order-left / order-right keep their visual meaning regardless of its value.
Example added in man/waybar-tray.5.scd