KDE/kdebase/workspace/plasma/applets/systemtray

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Wednesday 02 July 2008, Marco Martin wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 July 2008, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > On Wednesday 02 July 2008, Michael Rudolph wrote:
> > > what would be the ideas and concepts behind this updated systemtray
> > > specification?
> >
> > in a nutshell:
>
> just wondering at random my 2cents:
> > * IPC based (rather than xembed)
> > * all presentation and interaction is done by the systray host:
> > 	* icon selection, with the exception of animations
>
> maybe a way to put also animations in it could be found?
>  like the client saying "use that mng" (or image with multiple frames, or
> whatever the spec will have)

that would mean having animations and overlays in the icon themes. not highly 
realistic, tbh, but even then we are still left with things like "overlaying 
the number of unread mails on kmail's icon" and in future "having those 
numbers fade in nicely"

> couldn't also be provided a basic context menu where is the systray to draw
> it? the client says to the systray a bunch of dbus functions to be
> triggered and the systray draws the thing?

it's possible. Lubos and i have talked about it. the thing is that it becomes 
really tricky to do. consider that you'd have to replicate all useful menu 
features (exclusive groups, submenus) and then sync them on the client side 
with actions (it would suck to not be able to use QAction on the client side, 
for instance). so .. it's certianly doable i just personally doubt it's worth 
the effort.

the client application will have it's own theme and look anyways.

so it seems so much more obvious and simple, without much if any loss in real 
world usefulness, to just give the client a position on screen to show a menu, 
whatever that means for the client app.

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Aaron J. Seigo
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