On March 18, 2010, Rob Hasselbaum wrote: > On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Marco Martin <notm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > what are you exactly trying to accomplish?
thanks for asking the Right Question(tm) :) > > usually you shouldn't care of a detail like that > > I have a data engine that pushes data to my applet asynchronously. When the > applet isn't being shown, I want to disconnect from the source to reduce > CPU overhead. i can think of various hacks to accomplish this, but they aren't particularly pretty and i only know they'll work because i know how things work internally (which is never a good sign for a "solution" ;) i think the only clean solution to this would be to offer a bool PopupApplet::isIconified() const method. btw, i sat here for a few minutes trying to discount your use case, but it is a valid one imho. if it is't being shown to the user, the applet should at least have a chance of not waking up the cpu. my only question now is how to handle notification of the change. my first thought would be to add a new Contraint (IconifiedConstraint?) and then the applet could respond in constraintsEvent. -- 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 Development Frameworks _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
