Ayatana notifications for Plasma

[Aurélien Gâteau]

Sebastian Kügler wrote:
>> Regarding implementing it as a separate applet: I don't think it would 
>> have been a good idea because you would have to either add a dumb icon 
>> to your panel so that you could run this system, or add an invisible 
>> applet (not handy for the user to manipulate).
> 
> That's what you have the config option for. (it's the same in terms of manipulation 
> right now).

I don't understand what you mean.

>> Keep in mind that the 
>> binary is started on demand, so it does not take any memory if you are 
>> not using it (assuming it would automatically stop itself after a while).
> 
> Same goes for applets, dataengines...

Can an applet unload itself from memory? What I meant with "stop itself 
after a while", was the notify-osd executable calling exit(). I believe 
your desktop would be a bit too clean if an applet called exit() :).

>> The alternative of using a kded module could have been a good idea, but 
>> it would have required the creation of a kcm to configure the system. 
>> Such kcm would have had to tweak Plasma system tray settings behind its 
>> back, which could have been a problem to get on the fly changes. It 
>> would have at least needed to patch the applet to tell it to stop 
>> listening on dbus.
> 
> You could just as well manipulate the kded module's config from the systray's config 
> dialog.

True, but in both cases it would have needed a patch.
Offtopic: it's too bad Plasma does not have a DBus call to reload its 
config. Could be handy when going from one distro release to another 
(/me thinks about the switch between knetworkmanager the executable and 
knetworkmanager the plasmoid). I'll try to implement this if I find time.

Aurelien