I think that Xchat-Systray with auto-hiding on initialization of Xchat would be very useful for those who starts an irc-client automatically with a favourite WM. This little modification of the xchat-module just hides the main window of the Xchat at start.
Created attachment 101176 [details] The ebuild with an epatch and additional optional use-flag
Created attachment 101177 [details] The ebuild with an epatch and additional optional use-flag
Created attachment 101178 [details, diff] The little patch for auto-hiding
as much as I like such stuff, let's forward that to the actual application writer aka upstream to include it as otherwise we'd have to fix bugs in the software we caused by applying it and only gentoo users would benefit ;) Although I read your patch and it's a oneliner. Better stick w/ official releases when possible ;)