On Monday 07 December 2009, Aurélien Gâteau wrote: > Hi, > > I have been talking with Marco and Aaron recently on a new way to define > context menus for KStatusNotifierItem. > > Right now what is done is that when the user right click on a > KStatusNotifierItem in the systemtray Plasma applet, a DBus signal is > sent from the applet to the application, asking it to show its menu at > the appropriate position. > > The idea behind DBusMenu is that the application passes its menu > definition to the systemtray applet through DBus. It is then up to the > applet to show the menu and notify the application when the user > triggers an action. > > The advantage of this method is that you can have Plasma-themed menus, > whether the application is a KDE or GNOME app (my colleagues are working > on the GNOME side of the project). > > Work on this has begun. Since it's not the right time for this in trunk, > I created kdelibs and kdebase branches, which you can find in KDE svn > there: > > branches/work/~agateau/dbusmenu/kdelibs > branches/work/~agateau/dbusmenu/kdebase > > It is starting to work: the applet is able to show the menu application > in an ugly treeview. > > Next step is now to implement proper Plasma-like rendering of the menu > and I would like to have your opinion on this: what would be the best > way to implement menus in Plasma? > > So far applets I know which present menu-like ui are the Kickoff, Device > Notifier and Quick Access applets. Should I base my widget on code from > any of these applets? Would you prefer a brand new implementation? all of them are quite custom...
IconWidget can already be syncronized with qactions, probably items should be those, in a vertical layout and in a Dialog it looks a bit more complex for submenus, it will take quite a bit of code but should still be quite simple > Aurélien > _______________________________________________ > Plasma-devel mailing list > Plasma-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel > -- Marco Martin _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
