Review Request: port kdelib's tooltip shadow code to icontasks, and remove halo

[Mark Gaiser]

> On Jan. 9, 2013, 9:17 a.m., Mark Gaiser wrote:
> > I cannot imagine that code duplication is the way to go here. Surely there is a smarter way that doesn't involve duplicating code. There where other duplicated code paths before in KDE like the tooltip stuff and the rules to blur behind a window. The tooltip mess is still active, the blur behind is finally solved but that's mainly because nearly all apps added the needed lines to enable that feature.
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> > If you duplicate this class then it's bound to be a problematic part in the future. I strongly recommend finding a different solution that does not involve duplicating this code.
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> Cedric Bellegarde wrote:
>     In fact, tooltip.cpp in icontasks is already forked code from kdelibs...
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>     But i think my one line patch from https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/108241/ should be ok, no?

I'm not going to judge, but it "seems" better then duplicating a class.


- Mark


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On Jan. 8, 2013, 2:06 p.m., Xuetian Weng wrote:
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> (Updated Jan. 8, 2013, 2:06 p.m.)
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> Review request for Plasma, Cedric Bellegarde and Aaron J. Seigo.
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> Description
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> copy dialogshadows to icontasks, and use DialogShadows to handle icon tasks shadow.
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> This is a different solution of https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/108241/ , I guess this is what it should be.
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> (remove halo part is just to keep consistency with default tooltip)
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> Diffs
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>   applets/icontasks/CMakeLists.txt 1ff6042 
>   applets/icontasks/tooltips/dialogshadows.cpp PRE-CREATION 
>   applets/icontasks/tooltips/dialogshadows_p.h PRE-CREATION 
>   applets/icontasks/tooltips/tooltip.cpp 43f09ed 
>   applets/icontasks/tooltips/tooltipmanager.cpp dd36a9e 
>   applets/icontasks/tooltips/windowpreview.cpp 94c9eb2 
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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/108265/diff/
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> Testing
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> tested, no problem.
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> Thanks,
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> Xuetian Weng
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