System tray rewrite ready for review

Aaron J. Seigo aseigo at kde.org
Sun Aug 24 14:50:23 CEST 2008


On Sunday 24 August 2008, Jason Stubbs wrote:
> Presently, each application is choosing how/where to show notifications
> manually. They should be able to use QSystemTrayIcon::showMessage() and
> have the system tray do it, but it's unsupported (on the system tray
> side). Are "notifications" basically an implementation of this feature?

no, think "knotify"

> I've written the code to accept "balloon messages" for the FDO spec, but
> there's currently no code to actually display them. It seems that the
> notifications display code could be reused for this?

yes

> It also seems like
> a good idea to separate the notion of a tray icon and an application
> message as far as the systray/core stuff goes...

yes, which is what bringing in the notifications widgets would give us.

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