New Prosal [was Re: policy change related to kdelibs snapshots]

[Jaison Lee]

> 1) ask trolltech to add MMB support even though it's not portable
> 2) declare that MMB is not supported in the tray. period.
> 3) #2 plus decide that we're moving to a new system for these things anyways
> which makes more sense than a system tray and if you want fancy things like
> middle clicks that's the way to go.
>
> there is no "keep our own implementation" in the list above because i truly,
> truly hope that people don't decide to keep our own entire systray
> implementation just because of MMB when an xdg-compatible solution (which
> ksystemtray isn't right now) already exists in qt.

#1 or #4 (the keep our own thing) if that doesn't work out.

I look forward to having KDE apps available to people running other
OSes, but I absolutely draw the line at removing existing, functional
features from my own desktop just because those other OSes are
crippled or have only recently realized that mice should have more
than one button. If I thought Windows or Mac were acceptable
alternatives I'd be USING them.

I'd love to get as much into Qt as possible, but if they don't want or
are unable to put it in well then that's what kdelibs is for. Another
strange attitude surfacing recently is the "let's push everything in
the world down into Qt." I don't see that as being necessary.

Please don't dismantle my wonderful useful KDE desktop just to
maintain the least common denominator between operating systems.