Version: (using KDE Devel) Installed from: Compiled sources I think it could be handy if Kget had a tooltip on mouseover of the systray icon that displayed what the Kget program has at the bottom, although maybe reduced to just total size left, time, and rate. I find myself alot of times opening the app to see when a download will finish, or iconing all my downloads into the systray so I can keep an eye on them (a very cool feature btw). This tooltip would be a nice quick way to see the overall status of all the downloads.
I think that this is a very nice feature that I would like to see implemented and that I already reported 'whishes' to other systray application developers to implement similar status systems: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55206 (already implemented) http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65379 http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55209 Maybe, if other developers/users think this is a good thing, it should be added as a style guide... for me, this fast status are a very good thing :).
I implemented this earlier this year and it is in KDE3.3 However I am about to submit a bug for it, if someone hasn't already, to solve the vanishing nature of the tooltip, as it's updated so fast. For developers... The problem is: QToolTip::remove( this ); QToolTip::add(this, status); Cases the tooltip to vanish almost immediately. I am presently researching what effect removing the QToolTip::remove() causes to QT. Importantly if it will cause a memory leak. In my original patch I had the remove() commented, which stopped the tooltip vanishing on update. However it appears the maintainer believed the remove() had to be there and uncommented it. I will submit a bug later and attempt a fix. Comments to paul@campbell-multimedia.co.uk or the maintainer of kget. Thanks.
It's already implemented.