New systemtray: beginnings and how to do

[Marco Martin]

On Wednesday 18 February 2009, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Monday 16 February 2009, Marco Martin wrote:
> > On Monday 16 February 2009, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > > On Sunday 15 February 2009, Marco Martin wrote:
> > > > this basic thing works fairly well by now, what is totally missing of
> > > > course is the big part, the comunication infrastructure with the app
> > > > (don't
> > >
> > > how to do this is going to be the big trick in all of this. the d-bus
> > > interaction is actually pretty simple, but preserving backwards compat
> > > will be interesting to accomplish.
> >
> > yes, and fall back at the proper cases, that is the most worrying part,
> > yeah
>
> fortunately, that's probably the easy part: test for existence of the dbus
> service :)
>
> > > we have KSystemTrayIcon which IsA QSystemTrayIcon. so even if we
> > > implement the D-Bus protocol in KSystemTrayIcon, we'll always have a
> > > QSystemTrayIcon, and therefore a regular system tray icon, as well.
> >
> > ok, so we don't need a subclass of ksystemtrayicon, but something with
> > roughly the same api, i'm going a bit blindly there because i still never
> > looked at both KSystemTrayIcon and QSystemTrayIcon
>
> if you want to focus on the plasma side, i can take a spin at the client
> side API.
that would be killer :) at least beginnings of a working library, i was 
attempting to sketch something starting from exactly the same api of 
ksystemtrayicon (kinda fail for now), not too convinced but a quasi dropin 
replacement would make hopes of being adopted a bit higher, i'm not sure its 
api can bear all the info we need, at least a sensible subset on what we can 
expand
and other things not sure it's sane to support them at all, setMovie? ouch..


> > > KNotificationIcon? meh.
> >
> > hmm, as a name wouldn't confuse  a bit with dbus notification and galago
> > things?
>
> probably.  ergo the "meh". i'm still trying to think of a non-bad name.
>
> > TrayBus (the fancy rather meaningless one)
> > NotificationIcon (the really (too much?) generic one)
>
> hm.. it should say what it's doing, but be unique. not going to be easy. :)
> time, i think, for a think in the shower.


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