Review Request 120243: Remove fallback QSystemTray support

[Luigi Toscano]

> On Sept. 17, 2014, 2:55 p.m., Aleix Pol Gonzalez wrote:
> > Maybe we want to ifdef it? We won't require Qt 5.4 in a while...
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> David Edmundson wrote:
>     It doesn't require Qt5.4.
> 
> Martin Gräßlin wrote:
>     +1 for removing the fallback.

I guess the ifdef part was about keeping the support until Qt 5.4 is mandatory for Frameworks.


I understand you want to get rid of this "legacy" support in Plasma, but forcing it on all application is in my opinion a different story. Isn't there any other solution that removing the code for supporting it on Qt 5.4?


- Luigi


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On Sept. 17, 2014, 2:07 p.m., David Edmundson wrote:
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> (Updated Sept. 17, 2014, 2:07 p.m.)
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> Review request for KDE Frameworks.
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> Repository: knotifications
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> Description
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> Remove fallback QSystemTray support
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> Currently when we make a StatusNotifierItem if it fails we try to create
> a classic X system tray icon via Qt's QSystemTray.
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> QSystemTray now (5.4) has a QPT backend that uses KStatusNotifierItem. This
> means it's possible to infinite loop.
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> This patch removes the legacy QSystemTray support to avoid that
> happening.
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> Downside: it means if a frameworks app is run on a platform without statusnotifier support but still has legacy X system tray support we would now gets no icons, but that would break on Wayland anyway.
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> Diffs
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>   src/kstatusnotifieritem.h 7da1451 
>   src/kstatusnotifieritem.cpp 767537d 
>   src/kstatusnotifieritemprivate_p.h 051cc38 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/120243/diff/
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> Testing
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> Ran statusnotifiertest (the one in plasma-workspace) with plasma running. Everything is fine.
> Ran without plasma running and nothing happened (without kded5 infinite looping)
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> Thanks,
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> David Edmundson
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