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(Updated Dec. 17, 2015, 5:26 p.m.)


Review request for KDE Software on Mac OS X and KDE Frameworks.


Changes
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I've been working on this some more.

In addition to badging the systray icon with a NeedsAttention label, I've also
- worked around the absence of tool tip subtitles
- worked around notification messages getting lost. Since OS X 10.8, 
QSystemTrayIcon::showMessage() hooks into the native notification centre, which 
behaves a lot like how notifications work on a Linux/KDE(4) desktop. On earlier 
OS X versions Growl is used directly.
Messages relayed through the DBus get lost. Is that because Growl is supposed 
to handle them, and I don't have that utility installed? If so, I'd suggest 
dropping the indirection through DBus, on OS X.


Repository: knotifications


Description
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OS X has a number of limitations in features used by KNotifications, notably 
concerning the status notifier item (aka system tray icon).

This RR will likely evolve to address multiple limitations (at least also the 
NeedsAttention state); at the moment it only proposes an emulation of 
`QMenu::addSection`.

`QMenu::addSection` works by adding a QAction with a "texted separator" at the 
insertion location. Texted separators do not exist in menu items in the OS X 
"global" menubar (they become regular separators), and Qt will not provide a 
platform-specific implementation. Loss of the section title text is maybe not 
always an issue, but I think it is in the system tray menu. I therefore propose 
to emulate `QMenu::addSection` by replacing the texted separator with an 
inactive (disabled) menu item that shows the text, followed by a standard 
separator. Menus in the notification area are much less subject to interface 
guidelines, so the presence of an item icon is acceptable and IMO useful for 
the `titleAction`.

Testing the NeedsAttention state with the tests/kstatusnotifieritemtest 
application leads to disappearance of the menubar icon, i.e. the access to the 
notifier menu becomes invisible rather than blinking (which is what I get on 
Linux using the same packaging). Adding a few qDebug statements shows that the 
`attentionIcon` is empty.
I'd appreciate a crash course how this feature is supposed to work, so I can 
see if an OS X implementation might be feasible.


Diffs (updated)
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  CMakeLists.txt 6d09051 
  src/CMakeLists.txt 7eb3125 
  src/kstatusnotifieritem.cpp f9bf460 
  tests/kstatusnotifieritemtest.cpp 973fc85 

Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/126369/diff/


Testing
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On OS X 10.9.5 with Qt 5.5.1 and frameworks 5.17.0 .


File Attachments
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the systray icon & menu created by kstatusnotifieritemtest . This application 
has no icon to show.
  
https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2015/12/16/286037ae-07b3-454a-a226-1748854493a1__kstatusnotifieritemtest-systray.png
The systray icon and menu created by the KDE4 kwalletmanager (code has an 
equivalent patch)
  
https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2015/12/16/4fc9d4e4-1537-478c-9196-94cbc17b6b7c__kwalletmanager-systray.png
An Apple systray icon+menu that shows icons (which cannot be hidden)
  
https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2015/12/16/fc48a963-2e18-4396-bd38-062d41688118__Apple-systray-menu-with-icons.png
kstatusnotifieritemtest with added appIcon
  
https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2015/12/17/e896e90d-f0a8-43f7-9199-847572832df7__kstatusnotifieritemtest-with-appIcon.png
kstatusnotifieritemtest-with-appIcon+attention.png
  
https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2015/12/17/f41081db-8e09-4ea2-95c1-f507c62109d4__kstatusnotifieritemtest-with-appIconattention.png


Thanks,

René J.V. Bertin

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