KNotificationItem: default menu entries unwanted

[Sebastian Trüg]

On Thursday 14 May 2009 18:47:04 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Thursday 14 May 2009, Allen Winter wrote:
> > On Thursday 14 May 2009 7:51:34 am Sebastian Trüg wrote:
> > > Since the Nepomuk systray icon was ported to KNotificationItem it
> > > always shows the "quit" action which is really not wanted in this case.
> > > It represents a service that is not really supposed to be quit through
> > > the icon.
>
> we could tie it into whether or not there is an associated window (which
> also controls whether or not minimize/restore is shown there). the
> implication would be that for icons without an associated window, it would
> be up to the application to offer a quit action.

in the case of Nepomuk this would not help much since it is a system service 
with a window (a status window).

> i'm not sure that makes the most sense however ...
>
> another option might be to not show that entry if the type is System
> Services? or would that be overloading that parameter with too many side
> effects ...

Depends. Could it be possible to have a systray applet which only shows the 
status of a system service. (Well, actually this is what the Nepomuk thingi 
should become at some point.)

> i need to think about this some more ...
>
> > > Thus, my question: could we add a method like
> > > "addDefaultActions(bool)" to KNotificationItem which prevents the
> > > aboutToShow method to add the quit and restore actions?
>
> we could; i wonder if there's an even better approach that doesn't require
> more API or encourage people to cheat on the standard features. hm.
>
> > We also need a hide/show capability.
> >
> > And something changed yesterday... now when a user clicks on the korgac
> > icon KOrganizer is no longer launched.  This worked 2 days ago.
>
> hm, worksforme... i think my kdepim is a few days old though; i'll svn up
> at some point and try to replicate and if i can debug from there... i
> assume other left clicks (e.g. on the kmix icon) are working?