[kombine]

> We are sick of devs thinking their app is so important it needs a visual presence at all times

KDE Plasma allows hide selected applications from the tray and make those accessible in a popup window. The solution to this problem is not to remove the feature entirely, but actually implement it properly.

[c-hendricks]

Going a little further back to 2001 Windows XP let users do the same. They haven't been requiring visual presence for decades!