On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 6:01 PM, Sebastian Kügler <se...@kde.org> wrote: > Hey, > > During the sprint here in Barcelona, we've talked about the rework of the > notification area / systemtray and had a critical look at its concept and > direction. I've extracted some notes from it, which I plan to address in the > coming weeks. Here's a quick run-down: > > Goal of the system tray: Showing messages, hardware status and system status > > This includes: > - Essential hardware interaction (e.g. network, battery, brightness) > - Essential system interaction (notifications, running jobs) > - Social / messages / email status > > (This means we explicitely don't see the system tray as a taskbar replacement) > > One question that came up: How can we remove stuff that doesn't belong here > (according to above definition) elsewhere? Some ideas: > > - When no devices are plugged in, the device notifier should be completely > hidden > - No bluetooth device -> no icon for bluetooth > - The menu popup of statusnotifieritems should go into the systray popup > - We should be able to dbus-activate plasmoids (so for example, when a > bluetooth device is plugged in, the systray can load a plasmoid) > - The systray can override statusnotifiers with plasmoids, allowing an > improved functionality for some apps > - the calendar should move into the systray popup
Why? The calendar is part of the clock, that will remain the same i suppose? Following that logic, it will never be in the systray at all. > > Calendar-related changes: > - Calendar events should only be shown when Akonadi is running, otherwise, the > interface can be collapsed there. > - the event view becomes "Day's details" > - Adding an event should be possible directly from the calendar +1 to all of that. > > The XEmbed systemtray mechanism will not be supported anymore, instead we will > attempt to merge support for statusnotifieritems into Qt (for QSystemTray). > Other desktops are going a similar route. Please don't use excuses as "Other desktops are going a similar route.". They might, but they suck at doing it in my opinion. I'm guessing you aim at windows 8 and perhaps gnome here. Otherwise, please do share more details. > > We would like to redesign Klipper's functionality to make it more integrated. > This will likely result in a reimplementation of Klipper as Plasmoid. > > Some applications nest in the systemtray, and appear in both taskbar and > systemtray. We'd like to merge their entries. Example: Kmail's taskbar item > could show the number of unread emails as an overlay, instead of having a > separate icon in the systray. > > Overall, the direction of systemtray was met positively. > > This is quite a lot of work, and perhaps not achievable in one go. We'll see > about this in the coming weeks, I'll work on the items in a way that > prioritizes for impact and stability. > > Feedback, as usual, welcome. :) Most of it sounds good, but it's a bit difficult to picture it. Could you make some before and after mockups in conditions where this would be visible to the user? > -- > sebas > > http://www.kde.org | http://vizZzion.org | GPG Key ID: 9119 0EF9 > _______________________________________________ > Plasma-devel mailing list > Plasma-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
