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| Submitted: Oct 19 2006
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Description:
The idea is to move the funtionality of the small, limited system tray icon of some applications to a bigger widget like mini GUI. These Bqckstage widgets can live on the desktop or a \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"third layer\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\" (think apples dashboard). If the desktop or third layer are easy to access, i.e. with a key or button, this is more usable then the small system tray icon.
I used Amarok as an example in the mockup.
The actions that can be preformed, now in the right click menu of the system tray icon are represented as icons. The info that pops up when hovering over it is always shown on the Backstage widget.
Read this blog post for more info: http://commonideas.blogspot.com/2006/03/kde4-backstage.html
This is similar but not the same as what I think plasma and it\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s plasmoids are supposed to be. But it could be a part of it.
I would implement it with animated SVG and maybe some scripting, communicating with the main application over DBUS. The associated C++ API should reduce as much of the implementation work as possible for the developer.
I\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'m thinking of implementing this if it\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s popular enough, please comment.
License:
Creative Commons Attribution/Non Commercial
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