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List:       kde-panel-devel
Subject:    Re: VDG suggestions and wishes about the system tray
From:       Philipp Stefan <sogatori.ml () gmail ! com>
Date:       2014-08-28 17:41:03
Message-ID: 53FF69AF.60203 () gmail ! com
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On 28.08.2014 14:32, Sebastian K=FCgler wrote:
> On Thursday, August 28, 2014 13:38:49 Marco Martin wrote:
>>>> it  is a really a bad thing to have so many empty panels in - no
>>>> devices,
>>>> no notifications, no batteries etc.
>>> I think for batteries, we're doing that already (at least in Plasma 4 we
>>> didn't add the battery plasmoid to the panel for desktop systems).
>>>
>>> For notifications and storage devices, I quite like the idea. Maybe wor=
th
>>> a
>>> try to hide them completely and gauge the user reaction? (I can imagine
>>> nobody would miss it.)
>> one thing i would love, is to expand what we are doing with dbus activat=
ion
>> of  plasmoids, even tough for things like "not having any removable stor=
age
>> device attached" would require some more complex rules
> I'd think that dbus-activated plasmoids don't need this, since they come =
and
> go already (makes them essentially hidden).
>
> For the devicenotifier, it has to stay, since it could be configured to s=
how
> non-removable devices as well, so the logic currently in there is fine, a=
nd we
> can rely on the status.
For this case, to allow to configure this basic functionality we came up =

with greying them out if the plasmoid is not configured to show =

non-removable devices. This way it's clear that it currently does not =

hold any information, however the configuration dialogue is still available.
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