Projects/Plasma/NewSystemTray

From KDE TechBase
< Projects
Revision as of 12:50, 26 February 2009 by Mart (talk | contribs)
The printable version is no longer supported and may have rendering errors. Please update your browser bookmarks and please use the default browser print function instead.

New System Tray Design

Categories

System tray icons generally fall into four categories:

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

Properties

A System Tray Icon will Have the following properties.

  • 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

Draft of the D-Bus xml service description

[1]

Retrieved from "https://techbase.kde.org/index.php?title=Projects/Plasma/NewSystemTray&oldid=39010"