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

Tue May 31 14:33:18 UTC 2016

> On May 29, 2016, 7:45 p.m., Kai Uwe Broulik wrote:
> > src/kstatusnotifieritem.cpp, line 962
> > <https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/126369/diff/5/?file=467252#file467252line962>
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> >     That's not what this is for. It's so it uses merely the "shape" of the icon. From your description it looks as though it didn't just use the alpha channel but does strange blending of some sort. Better apply a KIconEffect.
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> René J.V. Bertin wrote:
>     I guess it could be using the alpha channel, but `setIsMask` supposed to "Indicate that this icon is a mask image, and hence can potentially be modified based on where it's displayed". 
>     I'm going to leave it as is for the time being and see if one even encounters passive KDE systray icons in the wild on OS X. I'm not going to waste time on designing a fancy icon effect if that will only be used once every few blue moons ;)

So I looked at KIconEffect and thought I'd experiment with some combination of desaturation and/or greyscale conversion. Surprise: the class to apply effects to icons doesn't have a method that works on a `QIcon` ...
This isn't an important enough feature for me, so please advise O:-)

- René J.V.

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On May 30, 2016, 12:39 p.m., René J.V. Bertin wrote:
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> (Updated May 30, 2016, 12:39 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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>   CMakeLists.txt 7cf8379 
>   src/CMakeLists.txt 7eb3125 
>   src/knotification.cpp 352cf49 
>   src/kstatusnotifieritem.cpp 27abfb8 
>   src/kstatusnotifieritemprivate_p.h 8fdfd4c 
>   src/notifybypopup.cpp 7d69a36 
>   tests/kstatusnotifieritemtest.cpp 973fc85 
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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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> File Attachments
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> the systray icon & menu created by kstatusnotifieritemtest . This application has no icon to show.
>   https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2015/12/16/286037ae-07b3-454a-a226-1748854493a1__kstatusnotifieritemtest-systray.png
> The systray icon and menu created by the KDE4 kwalletmanager (code has an equivalent patch)
>   https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2015/12/16/4fc9d4e4-1537-478c-9196-94cbc17b6b7c__kwalletmanager-systray.png
> An Apple systray icon+menu that shows icons (which cannot be hidden)
>   https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2015/12/16/fc48a963-2e18-4396-bd38-062d41688118__Apple-systray-menu-with-icons.png
> kstatusnotifieritemtest with added appIcon
>   https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2015/12/17/e896e90d-f0a8-43f7-9199-847572832df7__kstatusnotifieritemtest-with-appIcon.png
> kstatusnotifieritemtest-with-appIcon+attention.png
>   https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2015/12/17/f41081db-8e09-4ea2-95c1-f507c62109d4__kstatusnotifieritemtest-with-appIconattention.png
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> Thanks,
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> René J.V. Bertin
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