KNotificationAreaItem

[Thiago Macieira]

Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
>* secondary, if any, action to be taken

How about tertiary and quaternary actions? I'm not thinking here of wheel 
events (which the spec supports by calling Wheel, but of those fancy mice 
with more than the 5 standard buttons.

It's not that far-fetched to think of them: most laptop touchpads support 
horizontal scrolling, which are usually keyed to buttons 6 and 7 on X11. 
An application like a media player could use the primary wheel to control 
playback volume, whereas the horizontal scrolling could be used for 
seeking in the current track.

My point is: should the SecondaryActivation call provide extra 
identification information? MMB would be ID = 0, button 6 would be ID = 1, 
button 7 would be ID = 2. 

In a theoretical system tray area with keyboard focus, I imagine Enter 
would trigger Activation, the context menu button would trigger 
ContextMenu, PgUp and PgDown would trigger Wheel, but there are a lot of 
other keys available which could be used.

OTOH, if we do provide such ability, there will be applications making use 
of it, which in turn means they'll have limited functionality if the 
system tray supports less events.

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