KNotificationItem: default menu entries unwanted

[Marco Martin]

On Thursday 14 May 2009, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> 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.

hmm, actually  removing it from the menu should work,, just lookimg at the 
code didn' t try it -shouldn't- add the action again if it was manually 
removed from the qmenu

>
> > > 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 :)