KDE/kdebase/workspace/plasma/applets/systemtray

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Wednesday 02 July 2008, Michael Rudolph wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 July 2008 20:18:08 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> The reason for my pointy-headed enquiry was, that given the time frame
> (4.3), I was hoping we could already be pushing something fundamentally
> better than a systemtray.

remember that by using IPC we finally break the link between presentation and 
content here.

which means we could put the systray functionality for icons associated with a 
window *in the taskbar*! something both seli and i want *badly*.

that's just one of the possibilities here.

> When I look at what a systray does or rather what it is supposed to do
> and than look at the possibilities we have with plasma, I wonder how
> useful it is to pursue this old technology.

it depends on the topic. for some things it's a really easy solution. kmix is 
the classic example imho: it just needs an icon with a popup, really. but it 
also needs/wants to coordinate with its main application window.

one could go and write a complex plasmoid for it (that tracks the window id of 
kmix if running, for example) or one could just make a systray window the kmix 
app.

it's a lot less code, a lot simpler to do and in this case is pretty much what 
one wants (well, except for the slider looking like ass; we need to fix that as 
soon as libplasma is out of kdebase)

for many other scenarios .. it doesn't make much sense, and we should be 
triaging those out of the system tray if at all possible.

this will mean, i think, making a way to add plasmoids that is, from the user, 
non-distinguishable from launching an application. should be hard to do, 
really (using the existing plasma-applet-*.desktop files even), but would need 
to get done.

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Aaron J. Seigo
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