From kde-core-devel  Mon Jan 06 11:14:22 2014
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Aur=E9lien_G=E2teau?= <agateau () kde ! org>
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2014 11:14:22 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: KClasses vs. Qt5Classes
Message-Id: <2431254.9yB7i3KWtd () trinity>
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Le mardi 31 d=E9cembre 2013 12:42:22 Martin Graesslin a =E9crit :
> On Tuesday 31 December 2013 12:15:09 David Faure wrote:
> > > QSystemTrayIcon =3D> KNotificationItem
> >=20
> > No clue. I can't even find KNotificationItem in KF5 anywhere.... !?=
!?
> > In fact it doesn't exist in kdelibs4 either.
> >=20
> > I think it got replaced with KStatusNotifierItem since 4.4 ?
> > That one is still valid in KF5 (framework "knotifications").
> > I have no idea if/why it means QSystemTrayIcon is bad though.
>=20
> QSystemTrayIcon uses XEmbed which is bad by definition ;-)
>=20
> We have discussed this in the plasma team and think that the best sol=
ution
> would be to extend QSystemTrayIcon to use the status notifier API if
> available. Might need some hooks into the QPA as we probably cannot d=
epend
> on D-Bus on that level. But as that doesn't exist yet, at the moment =
the
> proper suggestion should be to use KStatusNotifierItem.

For what it's worth, I created something like that for Qt4 while I was =
at=20
Canonical: sni-qt [1].

It requires a Qt patch though. The patch is in the sni-qt tarball (and =
here=20
[2])

Aur=E9lien

[1]: https://launchpad.net/sni-qt
[2]: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~indicator-applet-developers/sni-qt/tr=
unk.13.04/view/head:/patches/qsystemtrayicon-plugin-system-4.7.4.diff