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

[Jason Stubbs]

On Thursday 22 November 2007 01:20:04 Lubos Lunak wrote:
> On Wednesday 21 of November 2007, Chani wrote:
> > >  As far as I understood the systray widget cannot be handled normally
> > > like others for whatever internal reasons, so if you need to keep it
> > > separately, at least keep it in the toplevel Plasma window. That is,
> > > set the Plasma toplevel widget as its parent, keep it as the topmost
> > > child and keep the position relative to it.
> >
> > I... didn't fully understand that. I still know almost nothing about this
> > windowy stuff; I'm just trying to make existing code less buggy. anyone
> > got a link to a good tutorial? or want to do this themselves? (I can't be
> > certain I'll have time to code again before 4.0 is tagged)
>
>  It should be simple :). QWidget constructor has the QWidget* argument
> specifying the parent - if it's not set, the widget becomes a toplevel
> window, otherwise it's kept inside its parent. In the patch you sent,
> SystemTrayWidget needs the toplevel Plasma widget as its parent, when when
> using mapToGlobal(), instead use mapTo() with the parent (well, or
> mapToParent(), I see). Maybe you'll also need to call raise() on the tray
> widget somewhere. That should do.

I've got it pretty much working but still need to do some cleanups. But bed is 
calling so I'll send a patch tomorrow.

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Jason Stubbs