system tray work

[Aurélien Gâteau]

On 02/05/2010 23:36, Fredrik Höglund wrote:
> On Thursday 29 April 2010, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
>> On April 29, 2010, Marco Martin wrote:
>>> i think i like more the second option.
>>> the only problem is that the ui for it would be rather clunky (there would
>>> be two distinct shortcut configurations in 2 different places that do
>>> almost the same thing)
>>
>> yes, a little clunky. perhaps room for improvement in the future. bonus points 
>> for working with any entry in the system tray though ;)
>>
>> which reminds me: someday we really ought to implement some keyboard 
>> navigation :)
> 
> I like this option as well. Keyboard shortcuts are important for
> accessability, so this is something that really should work with all
> icons and not just with klipper.
> 
> Anyway, I've attached the current version of the Klipper patch.
> Aside from the keyboard shortcut there's also the issue that the
> dbus menu isn't always updated when the clipboard history changes.
> Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't.
> 
> I'm hoping Aurélien has some idea about that.

I just had a look at it, and could not reproduce it :/. Do you know of a
way to reliably reproduce it?


About the patch: I noticed that left-click shows the menu directly
instead of going through dbusmenu, which is a bit inconsistent (even if
it's nice  for testing!). I tried to improve it by replacing the code in
tray.cpp like this:

diff --git a/workspace/klipper/tray.cpp b/workspace/klipper/tray.cpp
index e392698..7c02e45 100644
--- a/workspace/klipper/tray.cpp
+++ b/workspace/klipper/tray.cpp
@@ -43,8 +43,7 @@ KlipperTray::KlipperTray()
     setStatus( Active );
     setStandardActionsEnabled( false );
     setContextMenu( m_klipper->history()->popup() );
-    connect( this, SIGNAL( activateRequested( bool, QPoint )), m_klipper,
-        SLOT( slotPopupMenu( bool, QPoint)));
+    setAssociatedWidget( m_klipper->history()->popup() );
     connect( m_klipper->history(), SIGNAL(changed()),
SLOT(slotSetToolTipFromHistory()));
     slotSetToolTipFromHistory();
     connect( m_klipper, SIGNAL(passivePopup(QString,QString)),
SLOT(passive_popup(QString,QString)));

(Calling setAssociatedWidget() on the menu is a little-known feature of
KSNI which causes the left-click to trigger the menu)

But it's not enough because KStatusNotifierItem shows the menu itself
instead of sending a menu request over DBus. Which is understandable
because there is currently no way to send a menu request. This would be
a good addition in my opinion, what do you think about this?

Aurélien