Projects/Plasma/NewSystemTray

New System Tray Design

System tray icons generally fall into four categories:

• Indicators of application status
• Communications
• System services
• Hardware

A System Tray Icon will Have the following attributes

• Icon

 - name

 - pixmap (possible size variants)

• Tooltip

 - Headline

 - Subtext

 - Pixmap

• Status

 - Passive (normal)

 - Active

 - Needs Attention

• Interaction

 - Context menu

 - Activate

 - Wheel up/down

Interactions

The interactions can be considered in terms of the 'Client' ie the icon itself, and the 'Host' eg. the system tray.

Client

Signals

- i have a new pixmap

- i have a new status

the host will react to these, but with no guarantee of when - expect 500ms.

Slots

- activated

Properties

- tooltip data

- name

- pixmap