From kde-core-devel Sat Nov 24 19:39:29 2001 From: Richard Moore Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 19:39:29 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: Passive message popup class X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=100663060104607 On Friday 23 November 2001 12:37 pm, Thomas Zander wrote: > On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 12:33:08AM +0000, Richard Moore wrote: > > As part of my plan to improve the way KDE apps interact with the task > > manager, I've just finished a passive popup class that lets you display a > > message next to the taskbar icon. The popup does not interupt the user > > (hence the name 'passive'). The implementation uses the standard icon > > geometry properties from the WM specs, so it should work with any WM and > > taskbar. > > > > I've attached, the code, a demo app, the docs and a small piccy. I'd like > > to see this (and hopefully some other related tools) in the 3.0 api. Any > > comments? > > > > Cheers > > > > Rich. > > I think it really has potential; it looks quite nice ;) > It still has a lot of work to be done and one of them is that multiple > windows can gather on top of each other making it hard to read some (they > dissapear too fast) The timeout is configurable, so this is easy to solve. I thought about making them hide automatically when clicked too (optional of course) which helps too. > > I will not comment on KDE3 possebilities, but I would sure like to see a > whole lot of functionality brought to the user this way! > > Then again; if only someone can make the kasbar not take space away from > maximized windows this would actually be useful since now I rarely have > kasbar open, its iconified most of the time here.. That is the responsibility of the extension API stuff in kicker - I can't do anything about it. > > ps. it only compiled after adding #include Yeah, I developed it using Qt 2/KDE 2.2 so I was getting it implicitly. I've fixed it here. Cheers Rich.