Review Request 117464: [kglobalaccel] Remove notification support

[Àlex Fiestas]

> On April 10, 2014, 9:47 a.m., Martin Klapetek wrote:
> > > This means the notification right now has nothing more than debug purpose.
> > 
> > Wasn't there some accessibility reason for that notification? Because you can also have audio notification and others (custom plugins to KNotifications), not just popups.
> 
> Martin Gräßlin wrote:
>     I tried to figure out the reason on why there should be the notification. But neither the commits nor the mailing list thread shed light on it.
>     
>     But also for accessibility I don't really see a reason to have a notification when the global shortcut got triggered. Something should happen when you click it, e.g. Present Windows starts. Why would one want an additional feedback on "yo, you just activated Present Windows"?

It is for accessibility reasons so we could use knotifyd as a sort of text-to-speech. This is now not needed at all and imho it should be removed.

We need somebody to take charge of accessibility in Qt5 world (kde-wise).


- Àlex


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On April 10, 2014, 6:20 a.m., Martin Gräßlin wrote:
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> (Updated April 10, 2014, 6:20 a.m.)
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> Review request for Plasma, Aleix Pol Gonzalez and Aurélien Gâteau.
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> Repository: plasma-workspace
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> Description
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> [kglobalaccel] Remove notification support
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> KGlobalAccel emitted notifications when:
> * a shortcut is pressed
> * a new shortcut is registered
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> Both are configured with no action at all. Thus the notification is not
> of much use. Why it shouldn't show a popup had been discussed on kcd [1].
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> This means the notification right now has nothing more than debug
> purpose. While this might be a valid usecase it doesn't make much sense
> to do this with KNotification - for this see Aaron's mail [2]. Also e.g.
> KWin dropped all notifications for debug purposes for the same reason.
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> If there is a need for a kind of notification on global shortcut
> triggered or a new registered global shortcut this could also be easily
> emulated by adding an explicit signal to the DBus interface.
> 
> This removes the KNotificiation dependency.
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> [1] http://lists.kde.org/?t=126463249400002&r=1&w=2&n=16
> [2] http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=126463340225306&w=2
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> 
> Diffs
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>   kglobalaccel/CMakeLists.txt b77f85edab091fd260fb9bddb1ddb43df445c5fe 
>   kglobalaccel/globalshortcutsregistry.cpp 41a351b47a66c24f2e25d0d0d1df9c8a9b6616ef 
>   kglobalaccel/kglobalaccel.notifyrc aec41137180c18a89e21a537b9e73da715b5f55d 
>   kglobalaccel/kglobalacceld.h cb058acd0e1d50c47f3cab0cd9e0a061fd0d7a67 
>   kglobalaccel/kglobalacceld.cpp 86d54695a4b75dc20b46ba4c9ada398d96093a53 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/117464/diff/
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> Testing
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> Thanks,
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> Martin Gräßlin
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