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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: ksytray madness
From:       Fabrice Mous <fabricemous () xs4all ! nl>
Date:       2003-10-24 7:58:17
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On Friday 24 October 2003 01:58 am, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
[...]
> we may also want to allow the systray to talk to the icons in a direct
> fashion (something that's not so easy thanks to the QXEmbed class and raw X
> juggling that is used for this hack we call a system tray). honestly, if it
> was up to me and i didn't care about non-KDE systray icons i'd say we dump
> the whole X embeding stupidity and make it a 100% DCOP interface, where the
> systemtray owns the icons, creates the menus, etc.... all via a set of DCOP
> calls that apps can access, transparently to them via the KSystemTray
> class.
> unfortunately, reality dictates we have to hobble it to work with other
> systems that aren't as good as KDE and lack anything sane resembling DCOP
> and/or reasonable icon handling. if there was ever a reason to say "Screw
> the rest of the X11 world of braindamage, let's make KDE work in spite of
> them" the system tray is it. that's the idealist in me, the pragmatist
> realizes that isn't an option (at this point in time).
>
> anyways, long ramble, but i hope i got my idea across, namely: this
> requires some API changes, some more invasive than others, and a good
> overhaul and extension to the systray applet's capabilities. this may even
> require some BIC changes.

Aaron,

Thanks for your response and explanation. To make a clear statement,  because 
of lack of a DCOP-like interface in non-KDE systemens we need to keep the 
current method of working with the systray? Is this assumption correct? Will 
there be a 'shortterm' solution maybe? 

Cheers'


Fab

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