Review Request: Some improments to the system tray notifications.

Rob Scheepmaker r.scheepmaker at student.utwente.nl
Thu Nov 6 16:14:44 CET 2008


On Thursday 06 November 2008 13:18:36 Jason Stubbs wrote:
> The system tray spec has a balloon message API that is essentially
> another notification API. That API describes the icon by its bitmap so I
> went for the highest common factor - a QIcon. For Qt, the API is
> accessible with QSystemTrayIcon::showMessage(). I doubt that many (if
> any) KDE apps are using it, but it should probably be supported fully...

Hmm, in that case I don't really see how this problem could be solved. As long 
as there isn't a way to obtain an icon name from a QIcon. Do you have any 
suggestions on how to avoid this?

> Probably the layouts caching too heavily again.. If a child layout
> updates its size hint, parent layouts don't seem to invalidate
> correctly. I fought with it with the system tray for a while, but
> eventually gave up. From what you describe, it sounds similar.

Yeah, I hope QGLs get a bit saner in qt4.5. 



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