Detecting when PopupApplet is iconified

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On March 19, 2010, Marco Martin wrote:
> -closed popupapplet

note that this use case overlaps with containment without screen(), separate 
dashboard, etc.

> -containment without screen()

imho that's a case where the shell should simply choose what to stash and what 
to show.

e.g. in the netbook case i don't want to have to wait for the widgets on page 
2 to go through their data loading. i -want- them always updating. that's -
why- i have them there. putting them on separate pages (and therefore not 
having a screen()) is a matter of the screen size not whether or not they 
should be updating.

plasma-desktop is completely different in this way.

> -separate dashboard (even worse, that is a containment that is never
> assciated to a screen, but someties shown)

i'm not sure about this one; if we view it as a "quick reference" then they do 
need to be updating regularly.

conceptually it's no different than an autohiding panel.


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