KDE/kdebase/workspace/plasma/applets/systemtray

Aaron J. Seigo aseigo at kde.org
Thu Jul 3 00:02:18 CEST 2008


On Wednesday 02 July 2008, Marco Martin wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 July 2008, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > 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"
>
> oooh, another thing that popped randomly in my head:
> since it will be able to set its own pixmaps outside the theme, would be
> possible for the systray client to ask for a rectangular, not square icon?
> don't know if it makes sense or if would cause more problems, but at a
> first glance seemed neat...

technically this is already possible in the current spec. practically we try 
to make kde apps sane and not increase the burdon on the systray app. but this 
may be easier to offer good support for when we aren't dealing with xembed 
madness.

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Aaron J. Seigo
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