[Panel-devel] Plasma and the window manager (Re: KDE/kdebase/workspace/plasma/plasma)

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Tuesday 20 November 2007, Lubos Lunak wrote:
>  As far as I understood the systray widget cannot be handled normally like
> others for whatever internal reasons, 

which is that we don't use QWidgets

> so if you need to keep it separately, 
> at least keep it in the toplevel Plasma window. 

which would be PanelView plasma ..

*thinks*

perhaps we should put a hack in corona that publishes where the systray is 
positioned and then rely on the view in this one case to handle it. this 
could be put into Plasma::View i suppose. this would mean moving the 
systray-widget-handling code into Plasma::View itself, probably as a separate 
private class that it just creates as a child widget. when the systray applet 
moves or expands, it would emit a signal that corona would relay and the 
corresponding Plasma::View would move the widget as well.

Chani: what do you think?

> That is, set the Plasma 
> toplevel widget as its parent, keep it as the topmost child and keep the
> position relative to it.

yep.

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