On 02/10/2013 10:33 PM, Mark wrote:
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 7:52 AM, Rutledge Shawn
<shawn.rutle...@digia.com <mailto:shawn.rutle...@digia.com>> wrote:
On 2 Oct 2013, at 12:07 AM, Mark wrote:
> Hi,
>
> First of, the QSystemTrayIcon doc [1] seems extremely outdated
so i don't know if this question is valid with that specific class
name.
What is outdated about the docs? Just the XP screenshot or
something else?
First off, i big note that i didn't try this out now nor in any of the
Qt 5 releases thus far! That class was showing a popup in the Windows
XP style on at least Vista perhaps even Windows 7. That looked totally
out of place. In other terms, it didn't use the native system popup
back then. I don't know it's current state but considering that is has
a QPlatform* version leads me to think that the Qt5 version might be
better.
Other then that the documentation - yes, the screenshot - might
benefit from updating it :)
> So what i'm searching for is this, a class that just sends a
system(tray) notification that pops up in the place where all
notifications pop up. And then really cross platform!
>
> In KDE that would be the lower right corner
> In Gnome that would be the upper right corner
> In Mac also the upper right corner
> In Windows (XP, Vista, 7) in the lower right corner
> In Windows 8.. don't know how it's done there, i try to stay
away from it.
> In Android in the notification area
> In iOS in the notification area
> In Windows Mobile in the notification area
> In <YOUR_OTHER_MOBILE_OS> in the notification area
Ensuring that it works on the mobile platforms too sounds like a
good idea, to the extent that it's possible. But the lifecycle
issues might be different, e.g. usually a "background application"
can be killed at any time, so should the icon go away when that
happens?
I think it should work exactly as you just described it. If one wants
to make the icon "persistent" then that would probably have to be done
by the developer. This class should not care about that.
As far as mobile compatibility goes, isn't QSystemTrayIcon QtWidgets
based? I believe current advice is to stay away from QtWidgets on mobile
platforms.
> On all platforms it should naturally show the notification in
their native OS theme so for that QSystemTrayIcon is a bit
obsolete since it even shows the Windows XP style popup on Windows
Vista (that's the last time i tried it a couple years ago).
>
> Does the above exist? If so, where can i find it?
>
> [1]
http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5.1/qtwidgets/qsystemtrayicon.html#details
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