Review Request: Add a system tray option to always show all items

[Jonathan Marten]

> On Feb. 26, 2011, 1:31 p.m., Marco Martin wrote:
> > hmm i'm not sure about it, i don't see an huge use case of showing icons that are meant to be passive (so not telling anything useful at the moment)
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> > however the patch is well done (i appreciate disabling the combo boxes when the always show all option is checked)
> > so hmm, yeah, i'm a bit on the fence on this one but if there aren't other objections i think it can go in
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> Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
>     i object on the basis that you don't see a use case for it.
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>     let's not get into the (bad) habbit of adding UI just because we "can't think of a reason not to". :)

Obviously I can only speak for myself here, but my use case for having such an option is that I find things appearing and disappearing from the system tray (or other places) of their own accord extremely distracting.  Especially since this affects other things as well - with a full taskbar a new item in the system tray can change its width resulting in a rearrangement of the rows and tasks that I thought were in a particular place ending up somewhere else.  My memory expects things to stay where they were put, or at least where they were when I last looked - hence my preference for keeping all system tray items visible, on KDE or any other desktop.

The desired operation can be achieved in other was, of course.  But this option can be implemented with no substantial code changes, very little visual intrusion and no effect at all on those users who choose not to use it.


- Jonathan


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On Feb. 25, 2011, 4:33 p.m., Jonathan Marten wrote:
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> (Updated Feb. 25, 2011, 4:33 p.m.)
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> Review request for Plasma.
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> Summary
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> If the user wishes to have all system tray items visible at all times, there is no single setting to allow this.  The only option is to go to System Tray Settings - Entries and set all of the "Visibility" combo boxes to "Always Visible", and repeat this whenever a new item appears.
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> All versions of a popular closed source operating system have this option for the system tray.
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> This change adds a check box "Always show all system tray items" below the list on the Entries page.  Checking this sets all items (current and any new ones that may appear in future) to be always visible and disables the "Visibility" column.  It is still possible to access the "Keyboard Shortcut" column.
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> The default is for this option not to be set, so the system tray operation is the same as before.
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> Diffs
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>   plasma/generic/applets/systemtray/ui/applet.h b0e9a55 
>   plasma/generic/applets/systemtray/ui/applet.cpp bd2d8ff 
>   plasma/generic/applets/systemtray/ui/autohide.ui 3b6efff 
>   plasma/generic/applets/systemtray/ui/taskarea.h 091763c 
>   plasma/generic/applets/systemtray/ui/taskarea.cpp cfa503b 
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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/100743/diff
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> Testing
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> Built kde-workspace with these changes, checked operation of system tray and settings dialogue with this option checked and not checked.
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> Thanks,
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> Jonathan
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