KNotificationItem: default menu entries unwanted

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Thursday 14 May 2009, Sebastian Trüg wrote:
> 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).

ok, so the ability to turn on/off actions is needed. i'm on an airplane in a 
few hours, and i'll take a look at how to add it to the api in the least 
disruptive way then.

> > 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.)

yes, and the tray can now treat them responsibly, such as hiding them when 
they are marked as idle, for instance. (we already do that, in fact :)

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