Review Request 121016: [RFC] Make it possible to make plasmawindow live in a status notifier

[Aleix Pol Gonzalez]

> On Nov. 7, 2014, 11:20 a.m., Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> > plasma-windowed/plasmawindowedview.cpp, line 44
> > <https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/121016/diff/1/?file=326609#file326609line44>
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> >     I wonder if the background here should be transparant?

Well, what would you get instead? You still gets the window decoration anyway.


> On Nov. 7, 2014, 11:20 a.m., Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> > plasma-windowed/main.cpp, line 46
> > <https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/121016/diff/1/?file=326605#file326605line46>
> >
> >     --statusnotifier perhaps? That would be consistent with the naming in the code.

Ok will change it. I left systray because I thought people would understand it better, but oh well, whoever uses this flag should know what a status notifier as well.


- Aleix


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On Nov. 6, 2014, 6:55 p.m., Aleix Pol Gonzalez wrote:
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> (Updated Nov. 6, 2014, 6:55 p.m.)
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> Review request for kdeconnect and Plasma.
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> Repository: plasma-workspace
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> Description
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> [background explaination]
> I was thinking yesterday about the problem KDE Connect has that it's not really usable in any non-Plasma workspace because the main interface is the plasmoid.
> I understand that this won't solve all problems, but it can be a first approach for making plasmoids less of a niche solution, making it possible to let the solutions we have currently available elsewhere (it's especially interesting considering that most of our useful plasmoids live on the panel).
> The end goal is that KDE Connect can provide a desktop file with NotShowIn=KDE that lauches the plasmoid in a status notifier.
> [End of background explaination]
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> Now this introduces a --systray argument (can be changed, I couldn't find a better name) that sets up a status notifier item and when the window is closed it doesn't kill the process. It's quite straightforward, but needs polishing I guess.
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> Diffs
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>   plasma-windowed/CMakeLists.txt 252724a 
>   plasma-windowed/main.cpp 649bd39 
>   plasma-windowed/plasmawindowedcorona.h 8e6fd76 
>   plasma-windowed/plasmawindowedcorona.cpp 849fa51 
>   plasma-windowed/plasmawindowedview.h a6a8a44 
>   plasma-windowed/plasmawindowedview.cpp 4e0ac65 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/121016/diff/
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> Testing
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> Played around with it for a while.
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> Thanks,
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> Aleix Pol Gonzalez
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