KDE/kdelibs/plasma

[Marco Martin]

On 7/8/09, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org> wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 July 2009, Marco Martin wrote:
>> api to show/hide plasmoids from the systray, like NotificationItems
>
>> +    UnknownStatus = 0,
>> +    PassiveStatus = 1,
>> +    ActiveStatus = 2,
>> +    NeedsAttentionStatus = 3
>
> * forget about systray; that's a use case, but isn't the only one. we have
> the
> same issue with autohiden panels, for instance

ok, that's good, i wasfearing it was a too adhoc thing

>
> * are these status items really all we need? unknown, passive, active ...?
> how
> about a status for when the applet is engaged in user input (e.g. typing
> into
> a text edit) so we can e.g. identify when we can / can not hide a panel or
> should be grabbing focus for it?

AcceptingInputStatus? (better with or without the status desinence? i
don't want to create potential problems with other enums in the
future)

> * shouldn't this be in Applet rather than PopupApplet?

good point

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