KClasses vs. Qt5Classes

[Aleix Pol]

On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Martin Graesslin <mgraesslin at kde.org>wrote:

> On Tuesday 31 December 2013 12:15:09 David Faure wrote:
> > > QSystemTrayIcon => KNotificationItem
> >
> > No clue. I can't even find KNotificationItem in KF5 anywhere.... !?!?
> > In fact it doesn't exist in kdelibs4 either.
> >
> > I think it got replaced with KStatusNotifierItem since 4.4 ?
> > That one is still valid in KF5 (framework "knotifications").
> > I have no idea if/why it means QSystemTrayIcon is bad though.
> QSystemTrayIcon uses XEmbed which is bad by definition ;-)
>
> We have discussed this in the plasma team and think that the best solution
> would be to extend QSystemTrayIcon to use the status notifier API if
> available.
> Might need some hooks into the QPA as we probably cannot depend on D-Bus on
> that level. But as that doesn't exist yet, at the moment the proper
> suggestion
> should be to use KStatusNotifierItem.
>
> Cheers
> Martin


FWIW, our QPA (or QPT, actually) already depends on QtDBus.

Aleix
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