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[Aurélien Gâteau <aurelien.gateau@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ted Gould wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-01-22 at 10:12 +0100, Aurélien Gâteau wrote:
>> Ted Gould wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 10:13 +0100, Aurélien Gâteau wrote:
>>>> Since we introduce a new method, getting the result from the return
>>>> value rather than waiting for a signal feel more efficient.
>>> But, if we implemented the event mask that we had discussed (I don't
>>> think anyone has implemented it) then we would know whether a menu was
>>> interested in the event and we should wait.
>> I can't remember this event mask discussion. Care to refresh my fading
>> memory?
> 
> The idea was that we could have a property for individual items so that
> we would know what event it was interested in.  The idea was to not send
> dbus traffic when we didn't need it.  That way we would send
> "AboutToShow" in this case if the menu didn't care.

This is a good idea, but unfortunately there is no way (that I know of)
in Qt to know whether there are slots connected to a signal, meaning no
way for KStatusNotifierItem to know whether the app actually plans to
update the menu when it is about to show.

Aurélien