[Qt-interest] Ubuntu Unity - GOODBYE SYSTEM TRAY

Nicholas Shatokhin n.shatokhin at gmail.com
Sat May 14 16:32:08 CEST 2011


I saw example code's on many languages in Ubuntu Wiki, but I din't see  
code on Qt4. Can somebody write it?

Fri, 13 May 2011 15:41:21 +0300 було написано Bo Thorsen  
<bo at fioniasoftware.dk>:

> Den 13-05-2011 10:24, Thiago Macieira skrev:
>> On Friday, 13 de May de 2011 09:35:50 Bo Thorsen wrote:
>>> Den 13-05-2011 08:41, Georg Grabler skrev:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> If I understand you correctly, it is not integrated "yet" means it  
>>>> could
>>>> and maybe will be integrated with 4.8 / 4.9?
>>
>> Not sure if there's enough time for 4.8. We haven't been able to review  
>> the
>> patches yet.
>>
>> There will be no 4.9.
>>
>>> The question is if it should be supported at all? Why should everyone
>>> else follow just because Mark decides he wants to make Ubuntu look  
>>> like Mac?
>>
>> Because the notification item API was designed by the KDE devs (not the
>> Canonical devs) to replace the ageing and very broken  
>> window-embedding-based
>> systray API. It's more modern, allows for proper transparency as well as
>> themeing of icons in the systray.
>
> Not correct. KDE did the notifications, yes. But they were not in any
> way involved in the decision to remove the systray from Ubuntu. Not even
> from Kubuntu. This was decided and implemented by Canonical. The new
> notifiers are not entirely related to the notifications.
>
>>> I was on the team at Canonical that was going to implement it in KDE,
>>> but quit because I didn't agree with the vision. I still don't.
>>
>> Uh... it should be the other way around. Unless you mean the app menus.
>
> No I mean the notifier icons, not the notifications.
>
>> Either way, Qt integrates with the environment, so if Unity wants that,  
>> we
>> should integrate, regardless of our opinions on it.
>
> Fair enough.
>
> Bo Thorsen,
> Fionia Software.
>


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