Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On September 23, 2009, Aurélien Gâteau wrote: >> Aaron J. Seigo a écrit : >>> On September 23, 2009, Marco Martin wrote: >>>> every other consideration aside, i feel that it would have been -far- >>>> easier to mantain if the systray patch just consisted in notifications >>>> disabling and provide a totally separate daemon for that kind of >>>> notifications >>> unless i'm misremembering things, this is also what i suggested to the >>> people working on this when the Ayatana notifications design was first >>> announced. >> My first implementation was doing exactly this. But I was told (by a >> Plasma dev) it was not a good idea. > > what i'm pretty sure i said (could be wrong, was a # of months ago) was that > the option in the system tray could be defaulted very easily to "off" and the > new style of notifications could run separate from it.
That was how it was implemented: I splitted notify-osd into a library storing all the logic, and a notify-osd-gtk doing the gtk/cairo rendering. I then implemented a KDE version using Plasma. (You were not the one telling me it was not a good idea, Sebas did) > it could make sense to > share the notifications DataEngine, depending on how that part was written, > but modifications to the systray widget should not have been necessary. i > pointed out (i think to Bo?) that the systray was designed to easily "get out > of the way" of notifications and that one could watch for the notifications > host dbus service becoming available. Bo left Canonical a long time ago. We talked briefly about stuff he was working on when he left and I don't remember us talking about this. Aurelien _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
