--===============1130637699== Content-type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary=nextPart1136316.moWpxsifhm Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit --nextPart1136316.moWpxsifhm Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Monday 18 April 2005 08:30, Lubos Lunak wrote: > > > no, this will still be possible. you don't need a GUI or a visible > > > window. you will create a KSomeOtherTray ;) object and give it an icon > > > and connect to some signals. it will then communicate via X atoms (or > > > perhaps at some point an IPC mechanism like DCOP/DBUS) to the consumer > > > (in this case kicker) which will then show the icon. > > Hmm. Clearly at least one of us misunderstood your description, I'm just > not sure who. But even if this is about turning a mainwindow into an appl= et > then it doesn't make much sense to me either. no, that's not what i was saying. > > > your application will recieve events like "show your context menu now, > > > please" and "ok, show your main window!" > > No, it preferably shouldn't. Aaron, I thought one of your problems with > the old systray was the apps do a lot of stuff themselves. yes, so if we standardize via the implementation which user interactions=20 result in which application events (e.g. "right click results in a context= =20 menu") things become better. > The "show your=20 > context menu" part in the plan is only because I don't know how to transf= er > the popup to kicker without somebody complaining that their weird widget> doesn't work in the popup. yes, it would be optimal if the menu were part of kicker. this may be=20 possible, but i have my doubts as well. so this is a compromise. =2D-=20 Aaron J. Seigo GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 --nextPart1136316.moWpxsifhm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBCY9Fs1rcusafx20MRAloPAJ4s+go10WcAlALCCS4mJCu5YhlnpQCfe8b6 /Fm50EI33x8gQNQwFN4dhOI= =//Gf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1136316.moWpxsifhm-- --===============1130637699== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe << --===============1130637699==--