Matt Rogers wrote: > On Thursday 03 December 2009 07:45:31 am Aurélien Gâteau wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am a bit late at this, but I wanted to send you a patch which has been >> integrated in Kubuntu Karmic to add support for the Message Indicator to >> Kopete. >> >> Message Indicator is a new way to avoid missing incoming messages. It >> tries to avoid disturbing the user while still providing him access to >> necessary information. This system is cross-desktop: it is implement on >> KDE as a Plasma widget, and on GNOME as a panel applet. >> >> For more information you can have a look at a post from my blog: >> >> http://agateau.wordpress.com/2009/09/18/indicators-notifications-and-co/ >> >> This patch adds support for this new system to Kopete. I initially >> implemented it completely as a plugin, but in the end I had to extend >> the plugin API a bit so that my plugin was able to control whether the >> application should exit when the user click the (x) button of the main >> window. This was necessary because the plugin implement a >> systray-icon-like behavior (ie: If the plugin is running, clicking the >> (x) button should not close Kopete) >> >> To build this plugin you need: >> - libindicate: http://launchpad.net/libindicate >> - libindicate-qt: http://launchpad.net/libindicate-qt >> >> You probably also want the Plasma widget: >> - https://launchpad.net/plasma-indicatordisplay >> >> I know this is quite late in KDE schedule to ask for this to go in >> trunk. If you like the idea but think it is too late for KDE 4.4, I'll >> come back to you when trunk unfreeze for 4.5. >> >> Aurélien >> >> PS: Please CC me of answers >> > > The plugin should go to extragear proper. The other changes to Kopete itself > can go in.
Great! I am going to commit the core Kopete part this evening then. Moving the plugin to extragear sounds like a good idea indeed. I need to review the policies wrt getting code included in extragear. > > Also, the cmake check is not up to KDE standards since it uses pkg-config, so > you'll want to write a libindicate and/or libqindicate cmake module for it. Mmm... yes, I need to improve my cmake-fu. This will be in extragear anyway, so it shouldn't affect trunk. Aurélien _______________________________________________ kopete-devel mailing list kopete-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kopete-devel
