On Wednesday 14 January 2009, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Wednesday 14 January 2009, Marco Martin wrote: > > On Tuesday 13 January 2009, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > > this would probably mean creating a small Plasma::Message class or > > > (even re- using Plasma::ToolTipContent perhaps?) and allow plasmoids to > > > queue such messages with the Applet class. the Applet class would then > > > display it in a "plasma" way (what does that mean? i don't know for > > > sure, but we can work that out together; perhaps an overlay on the > > > plasmoid itself if it is big enough, perhaps a tooltip type thing, > > > perhaps a notification in the system tray,...?) > > > > hmm woudn't this mean duplicating knotify in a similar-but-not-quite way? > > it's not meant as a replacement for notifications, but rather a widget > appropriate replacement for dialog boxes ... > > good example is folderview when it can't load the folder (doesn't exist, > network down, whatever). that functionality should be available to all > widgets. > > the weather widget in kdrevew uses a KMessagBox right now, because it's > easy to do, but that causes all sorts of problems: it doesn't look Plasma > and it blocks mouse interaction with the rest of the desktop. > > it'll also give us a nice simple bit of API to give scripters.
for that i would use something similar to setConfiguratioRequired() in Applet is actually quite generalized already, i think i'll throw a patch on that in a moment :) would it have to be just a message or allow generic graphicswidgets throwing in it? (i would keep really simple) so just message, icon and buttons like a real dialog? Cheers, Marco Martin _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
