Hi all, I was looking at some systray-related bugs, such as https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=365569 and https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=365967 and it occurs to me they always have in common the same reason: even if I tried hard in the rewrite to make it less a "special case", it still is just that: a "special case" (ever having allowed plasmoids in the systray a long time ago in 2009 is still on of the design decisions i mostly regret but that's another story)
what I'm thinking of, is having a new possible formFactor() value, IndicatorArea (why exactly FormFactor?because it's exactly that, while Horizontal means "can grow horizontally, constrained vertically, that would mean constrained both horizontally and vertically) So in that case applets would need to make sure to be square in that particular formfactor, like the weather that wants to eventually become non square in panels (and no, i don't want to allow non square icons in the systray.. ever) another difference would be (and that is kindof an hack, but at least it puts that immutability hack there and only there) containments of IndicatorArea formfactor would have a Mutable immutability°, because the systray itself should always be able to both add and remove plasmoids in itself even when immutable (even Systemimmutable) it could still hide/disable the ui to do so when immutable, but must be programmatically able to do so. Unfortunately as it needs changes in plasma-framework it would need to be a post 5.8 thing (how to properly fix 365618 in 5.8 I have no idea, except perhaps the systray applet itself trying to temporarly unlock plasma when it has to remove widgets, that would still be broken in systemimmutable case, but better than nothing) opinions? comments? -- Marco Martin
