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28. By Dmitry Shachnev

Add AppMenuPlatformSystemTrayIcon implementation

Q: What’s this for?
A: Currently Qt 5 desktop applications which try to display a system
   tray icon will fail to do so in Unity desktop, because we abandoned
   the old XEmbed-based tray. This branch will make it work again, and
   in a nicer way. As a side-effect, notifications will now work too.

Q: We already have sni-qt, why is this needed?
A: sni-qt was only working with Qt 4, it does not work with Qt 5.
   Actually, a big part of code in this commit is copied from sni-qt.

Q: Why not just port sni-qt to Qt 5, why this code should be here?
A: In Qt 5, features such as platform tray icon should be implemented
   using Qt Platform Abstraction (QPA), which was not the case in Qt 4.
   More important, things like platform menu bar and platform tray icon
   should be in the same plugin, called “platform theme”. There should be
   only one platform theme for a platform, in Ubuntu it is appmenu-qt5.

Q: So is it just a copy of sni-qt code?
A: Most of it is based on sni-qt code, but it was changed a lot to work
   with Qt 5 and QPA interface. I also cleaned it up a bit and deleted
   some stuff that I think is not relevant.

Q: Does it add any additional dependencies to appmenu-qt5?
A: No. The only third-party library it needs is libdbusmenu-qt5, which
   is already used by appmenu-qt5.

Q: How does it work?
A: There are two things we should export — the “status notifier item”
   (which contains icon, tooltip, etc) and the menu. While the status
   notifier item will work with any server-side implementation, the menu
   will only work with ours (indicator-application). When
   indicator-application sees that an item has a menu, it will convert
   it into an indicator, and any indicator renderer (such as Unity, or
   indicator-applet) will show it.

Q: Which desktop environments will it work with?
A: It is designed to work with anything that supports indicators, like
   Unity or GNOME Flashback.

Q: Why the interface has KDE in name?
A: The StatusNotifierItem was originally developed by KDE project. While
   it is very possible that this standard will be adopted by FreeDesktop,
   indicator-application currently only supports the KDE name.

Q: Can KDE reuse this implementation?
A: They already have their own implementation, in Framework Integration.
   I could not reuse their code because they have not signed the
   Canonical contributor license agreement.

27. By Dmitry Shachnev

Add AppMenuPlatformMenuItem and AppMenuPlatformMenu classes

Having these classes will allow us to implement missing functionality
for AppMenuPlatformMenuBar class, and also add a new class for system
tray icons (AppMenuPlatformSystemTrayIcon).

26. By PS Jenkins bot

Releasing 0.3.0+15.04.20141126-0ubuntu1

25. By Łukasz Zemczak

Change the way QKdeTheme is constructed to fit the way presented by the new Qt 5.4.0 version. Make this change conditional so that it's still buildable with earlier releases. Fixes: #1394887
Approved by: Timo Jyrinki, PS Jenkins bot

24. By PS Jenkins bot

Releasing 0.3.0+15.04.20141111-0ubuntu1

23. By Timo Jyrinki

Add libmtdev-dev build dependency (LP: #1379152) Fixes: 1379152
Approved by: PS Jenkins bot

22. By PS Jenkins bot

Releasing 0.3.0+14.10.20140926-0ubuntu1

21. By Dmitry Shachnev

Do nothing if AppMenu is not available, or UBUNTU_MENUPROXY is set to 0 or empty string. Fixes: 1362104
Approved by: Łukasz Zemczak

20. By PS Jenkins bot

Releasing 0.3.0+14.10.20140528-0ubuntu1

19. By PS Jenkins bot

No change rebuild against Qt 5.3

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