On Friday 17 April 2009, Allen Winter wrote: > please tell us the plans for libknotificationareaitem. is it going into > kdelibs/plasma for the 4.3 release??
we're not expecting it for 4.3; we want to trial it out before committing to BC guarantees which means trying it out on various applications and making sure it provides for our current use cases. > what is it exactly? a d-bus driven replacement for the xembed system tray icons. it is data centric rather than display centric, allowing for more information about the icon (e.g. it's activity status, category, etc), multiple views on the same icon and moving as many of the visualization decisions as possible to the host. they are faster (appearing instantly from a user's POV in the system tray) and look much more native (whatever that means to the host system) > are there apidox yet? yes ... in playground/base/plasma/libknotificationareaitem/knotificationareaitem.h > how will this work on a non-KDE system? it falls back to an xembed icon. in fact, if the dbus service appears and then disappears, it will toggle even between the two modes. it does this by having a KSystemTrayIcon as a member of the private class and instantiates that when needed. this way, should we get to the point where there are no xembed based implementations in wide use we can remove it but in between now and that potential future we maintain seamless compatibility. (this is why i really wanted to have this taken to k-c-d before starting wholescale porting of apps. :) -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Software
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