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. 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. -- Matt
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