[Development] New library in qtbase

[Samuel Gaist]

> On 29 Nov 2016, at 13:39, Shawn Rutledge <Shawn.Rutledge at qt.io> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On 29 Nov 2016, at 09:07, Samuel Gaist <samuel.gaist at edeltech.ch> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 27 Nov 2016, at 20:44, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On domingo, 27 de novembro de 2016 20:22:25 PST Samuel Gaist wrote:
>>>> Currently there’s macOS and iOS already working.
>>>> 
>>>> The plan is to add
>>>> - Android
>>>> - Linux through DBus
>>>> - Win10 (there will be some constraints if I understood their documentation
>>>> correctly)
>>> 
>>> How about the older X11 / XEmbed way?
>> 
>> I was writing the list from memory and I forgot that one.
>> 
>> I haven’t took a deep look yet at it but I don’t see any reason to not have it.
> 
> A system tray icon can emit notifications, but you aren’t putting the whole tray icon implementation into this library, are you?
> 
> XEmbed is a way of rendering tray icons, whereas we don’t need it for notifications themselves, right? because they are shown as separate windows.  In some cases we render them; in others, the rendering is done in another desktop-wide process.
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No, I’m not. 

The idea is to implement the notification part which would be then used by QSystemTrayIcon.