IBus UI review

[Peng Huang]

On 02/19/2009 04:09 AM, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 16:14 +0800, Peng Huang wrote:
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>> On 02/18/2009 02:03 PM, Matthias Clasen wrote:
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>>> Did you understand what I said about focus-follows-mouse ? Anyway,
>>> another way in which the toolbar is problematic is caused by the odd way
>>> in which input methods are started before the rest of the session. The
>>> toolbar appears way before other parts of the desktop, and hangs there,
>>> naked, in front of the background. Can we keep it hidden until the
>>> status icon has been embedded in the panel, please ?
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>> I do not understand 'focus-follows-mouse' well. Please explain it to me.
>> Another question, how do I know when the systray is ready?
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> By focus-follows-mouse, I mean the "Select windows when the mouse moves
> over them" option in the "Windows" capplet. If you turn that on, and
> move the move from the window you are working in towards the toolbar or
> statusicon, the window looses focus and the status icon/toolbar turn
> inactive, so you can't do whatever you wanted to there in the first
> place...
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I understood the problem now. We could make the panel close to the input 
cursor or window. But it will be a little annoying. Do you have any idea?
> To know when the statusicon is embedded in the panel, you can listen for
> the "notify::embedded" signal on the GtkStatusIcon.
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It could work. But how to deal some desktop without sys tray? Do you 
know other ways to check if the session startup is over?