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(Updated May 29, 2016, 8:03 p.m.)


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


Changes
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Uses the Unicode BELL symbol instead of an exclamation mark to badge the Dock 
icon with when the user's attention is requested. That should be as universal 
as an exclamation mark (I still think that one is more universal as an *image* 
even if certain languages use a different symbol in written text).
In the end the importance is mostly to show something that doesn't have a 
meaning of its own; the badged text is shown in white on a red circle; the 
feature is usually used to show things like the number of unread messages.
One could use a single space in order to get just the red disk, or a (thick) 
hyphen to simulate a "go no further" traffic sign. Bothering translators with 
this seems a bit exagerated.


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 7cf8379 
  src/CMakeLists.txt 7eb3125 
  src/knotification.cpp 352cf49 
  src/kstatusnotifieritem.cpp 27abfb8 
  src/kstatusnotifieritemprivate_p.h 8fdfd4c 
  src/notifybypopup.cpp 7d69a36 
  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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