The big problem is that GTK.Popover cannot be a top level window and
granite popover is intended to be deprecated.
Cheers,
Daniel Foré
elementaryos.org
On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 10:53 AM, Sergio Costas <rastersoft@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:rastersoft@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Hi:
I've been thinking about this, and want to propose an idea. But
before writing code, I prefer to comment it first, just in case
someone finds something that could prevent it from being useful.
At first I considered the idea of using libpeas to add the
indicators directly as part of the bar, but then I realized that
it's not a good idea because a bug in any indicator (which are
always pieces of software delivered by third parties and without
the same quality control) would crash the entire bar, which is not
desirable.
The idea of exporting the indicator using DBus is good, but has
the problem that it needs a lot of work in order to embed any
widget and send them through the bus (like the famous libido). But
then I realized that the only API needed over DBus is the one to
put an icon in the bar, and also a DBus callback to inform the
indicator that the user clicked on it. The popup itself can be
painted directly by the indicator app, because it is a new window,
and inside it can be painted any standard widget. This way,
wingpanel (or whatever indicator bar used by the user) only needs
to offer an API to add an icon inside, and a DBus signal to inform
the indicator app that it must show/hide its popup (and also other
to enable/disable an icon, and so on, but the API would be very
small).
The advantages are several:
* Developing the library would be extremely easy, and also its
maintenance, because it is extremely lightweight.
* It won't use XEmbedd or other X-specific mechanisms, which means
that it would be fully compatible with Wayland without changing a
line.
* By copying the client API from libappindicator, it is possible
to have binary compatibility with libappindicator applications:
the client code would send over DBus the petition to put the icon
in the bar, and will wait for click events. When they arrive, it
would create a popup with the menu created by the appindicator
application.
Critics? Change proponsals? Am I completely off-topic?
El 28/07/14 a las #4, Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff escribió:
Thanks for the info!
I wonder if indicators themselves were ported to GTK3 though.
Another suggestion I've heard recently is looking into MATE
indicators. But this is all Freya+1 stuff so I'll investigate it
only after Freya is released.
If anyone's interested in the situation with indicators, I've
detailed it here:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1439765#p1439765
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