KNotificationAreaItem

[Marco Martin]

On Friday 24 April 2009, Ted Gould wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 18:03 -0600, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > this is probably the typical implementation we'll see in general, because
> > it's consistent with legacy tray behaviors. but it could just as easily
> > be a voice driven system, a text interface or fluffy dancing bunnies
> > pantomiming the items. ;) this is why we put no definition beyond "here
> > are the triggers".
>
> While I understand what you're saying, I'm a little worried that unless
> there's a different implementation people are going to quickly associate
> them with left, right and middle click.  App developers are a pain that
> way :)
>
> This doesn't allow for applications that handle the buttons a little
> differently.  For instance the network manager notification icon shows
> menus for both left and right click.  And doesn't really have an
> "activate" type feature.  Bluetooth and GNOME Power Manager are the same
> on my system right now.  In fact, with what I currently have running,
> only Liferea behaves this way.
yes, we have for instance klipper the clipboard monitor that shows the same 
menu with both left and right clicks, so we simply show the menu widget when 
the activate action arrives, mantaining that very same behaviour
>
> > now, i don't know of any systray icon that would require this now (do you
> > know of one?), and any that one might dream up i'd file under "broken,
> > please write a widget for your panel system" :)
>
> That seems fair to me.
>
> > >       * It seems like that by having the application draw the menu
> > >         you'll end up with GTK menus in the KDE panel and vice versa.
> >
> > yes; this was done because:
>
> <snip>
>
> > if you'd like to work on such an addition to the spec, i'd happily accept
> > it as a valued addition. if you are interested, some thoughts/notes off
> > the top of my head:
>
> I'll look at the references and see if I can't brainstorm something.
>
> 		--Ted