Review Request 126369: [OS X] adaptation(s) to platform limitations (WIP)

[Martin Klapetek]

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Can you please add a screenshot of how such menu looks like on OS X?


src/kstatusnotifieritem.cpp (line 710)
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    Why is it reasonable if the platform guidelines speak against it?


- Martin Klapetek


On Dec. 15, 2015, 8:44 p.m., René J.V. Bertin wrote:
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> (Updated Dec. 15, 2015, 8:44 p.m.)
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> Review request for KDE Software on Mac OS X and KDE Frameworks.
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> Repository: knotifications
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> Description
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> OS X has a number of limitations in features used by KNotifications, notably concerning the status notifier item (aka system tray icon).
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> This RR will likely evolve to address multiple limitations (at least also the NeedsAttention state); at the moment it only proposes an emulation of `QMenu::addSection`.
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> `QMenu::addSection` works by adding a QAction with a "texted separator" at the insertion location. Texted separators do not exist in menu items in the OS X "global" menubar (they become regular separators), and Qt will not provide a platform-specific implementation. Loss of the section title text is maybe not always an issue, but I think it is in the system tray menu. I therefore propose to emulate `QMenu::addSection` by replacing the texted separator with an inactive (disabled) menu item that shows the text, followed by a standard separator. Menus in the notification area are much less subject to interface guidelines, so the presence of an item icon is acceptable and IMO useful for the `titleAction`.
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> Testing the NeedsAttention state with the tests/kstatusnotifieritemtest application leads to disappearance of the menubar icon, i.e. the access to the notifier menu becomes invisible rather than blinking (which is what I get on Linux using the same packaging). Adding a few qDebug statements shows that the `attentionIcon` is empty.
> I'd appreciate a crash course how this feature is supposed to work, so I can see if an OS X implementation might be feasible.
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> Diffs
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>   src/kstatusnotifieritem.cpp f9bf460 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/126369/diff/
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> Testing
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> On OS X 10.9.5 with Qt 5.5.1 and frameworks 5.17.0 .
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> Thanks,
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> René J.V. Bertin
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