XApp progress bar support for Qt applications
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100
Research direction
Begin by examining XApp's existing GTK-window progress-bar API and how Rapid Photo Downloader calls libunity; no file or test is named. Done would require an agreed implementation path and verified launcher progress bars for Qt applications in Linux Mint.
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Description
Hi, I read with interest the discussion on application launcher progress bars here: https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3329
My application, Rapid Photo Downloader, currently implements application launcher progress bars (and badge counts) using libunity. It now works out of the box in any distro with KDE (e.g. openSUSE 15.2), Ubuntu (Gnome), Pop!_OS (Gnome with dash to panel), Fedora (Gnome with dash to panel), etc. For example, on openSUSE and Pop!_OS respectively:
Where it does not work is with Linux Mint. I looked into your API as described in the blog post, and it only works with GTK windows, not Qt windows.
I see a couple of possibilities for Xapp progress bars:
- integrate with
libunityso calls tolibunityautomatically get sent to Xapp too, or - extend XApp to include Qt windows
Will you consider one of these options?
Thank you.
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- C
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