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jjk-jacky / statusnotifier

Library to use KDE's StatusNotifierItem via GObject
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dbusmenu support #7

Closed vovochka404 closed 7 years ago

vovochka404 commented 9 years ago

Is here any plans for dbusmenu out-of-the-box support? Or every one will have to do it by his own?

vovochka404 commented 9 years ago

I can contribute a dbusmenu support based on libdbusmenu. The only problem is that libdusmenu depends on gtk2/3 (there is 2 versions libdbusmenu) This will make this lib also gtk-version dependent. Any ideas how to avoid this?

jjk-jacky commented 9 years ago

First off, I'm not sure what you mean by dbusmenu support? There's no mention of menus in the specs, only a ContextMenu() method to ask to show one. I assume this is something that was added but never documented/added to the specs?

Then, I'm not familiar at all with dbus menus, or libdbusmenu, but isn't there like a client library and a server one? Where the client is used to get & show menus from dbus, and the server send them over? In that case, I assume only the later would be needed here, while only the former would need to link against GTK. If not though, I'd say linking against GTK3 probably isn't a big issue, since it actually already link against GDK3 anyhow.

If you want to work on a patch for it, I'd be happy to merge, though I'd like it to be optional at configure level, so one could choose whether to build w/ dbusmenu support (and require libdbusmenu) or not.

-j