[Qt-creator] [Development] [OS X] Dock icon progress widget

[Kevin Funk]

On Mittwoch, 22. Juni 2016 10:08:03 CEST Eike Ziller wrote:
> > On Jun 22, 2016, at 11:50 AM, Marc Mutz <marc.mutz at kdab.com> wrote:
> > 
> > On Tuesday 21 June 2016 12:36:02 René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> >> On Tuesday June 21 2016 09:50:52 Eike Ziller wrote:
> >>> I think this would be more a question to the Qt/macOS developers, to be
> >>> asked on the development@ mailing list ;)
> >> 
> >> OK then :)
> >> 
> >> I've, erm, borrowed some code from Qt Creator to add a Dock icon
> >> progressbar to KDevelop, adding a minimal API (only static methods as an
> >> app has only a single Dock icon) as well as a poor man's indeterminate
> >> mode. The code is still under review
> >> (https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/128188) so I wonder if I shouldn't
> >> instead by proposing it as a QtMacExtras addition.
> >> 
> >> What do you think? Any suggestions how to integrate this into
> >> QtMacExtras,
> >> as a standalone class or as additional QtMac methods?
> > 
> > Windows also has taskbar progress. Not sure about KDE/Linux.
> 
> Qt Creator has an implementation for windows too
> http://code.qt.io/cgit/qt-creator/qt-creator.git/tree/src/plugins/coreplugin
> /progressmanager/progressmanager_win.cpp
> 
> Nobody of us found a sensible way to do something similar on various Linux
> desktops though.

The closest thing on Linux is probably the Unity Launcher API. I only know it 
because Plasma started to support it (read: use it) in Plasma 5.6.

More information here:
  http://blog.broulik.de/2016/01/on-being-more-convenient/
  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Unity/LauncherAPI

A platform agnostic wrapper for all this would be indeed great to have!

Cheers,
Kevin

> 
> Br, Eike
> 
> > It probably makes sense to add a couple of slots to QSystemTrayIcon (is
> > there something similar in GUI?).
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Mard


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Kevin Funk | kfunk at kde.org | http://kfunk.org
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