Kevin Krammer:
> Hi,
>
> On Wednesday, 2012-10-31, adrelanos wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> How can I get a passive, non-intrusive progress bar?
>>
>> A combination of kdialog --passivepopup and kdialog --progressbar. For
>> example, when copying files with dolphin such a progress bar will be
>> used. I want the same for my own scripts.
>
> I assume you are referring to the progress display that folds into the
> desktop's notification area?
Yes.
> Those are actually not handled by applications themselves, e.g. Dolphin
> doesn't do anything for that, but are used by KDE's I/O infrastructure
> automatically.
>
> If you need that for file operations or download/upload, have a look at
> kioclient.
>
> If you need that for something you process then I am afraid you are currently
> out of luck :(
Yes.
> Shouldn't be too difficult to add such a thing to kdialog, but currently it
> seems it can't access those progress notifications. Might be worthwhile to add
> a feature request for that on bugs.kde.org
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=309861
> If you have the option of implementing your solution in a scripting language
> with D-Bus support, then it should be possible to access that part of the
> desktop directly.
> The D-Bus name for the service is org.kde.JobViewServer, but I am not entirely
> sure how it is being used (I only had a cursory glance at the code in kdelibs
> that uses it).
Looks quite difficult. There is very few reference about
org.kde.JobViewServer on google.
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