Where are my systray icons cont'd

[Martin Gräßlin]

On Friday 28 November 2014 16:49:51 Kevin Funk wrote:
> On Thursday 27 November 2014 21:10:10 Kevin Funk wrote:
> > Heya,
> > 
> > I'm still missing my beloved systray icons for a few applications in
> > Plasma
> > 5 on Ubuntu 14.10 (using distro provided packages).
> > 
> > I have every package installed according to [1] (sni-qt, libindicator*),
> > but still, systray icons for Pidgin or Skype won't show up. Also see [2].
> > 
> > What am I doing wrong? :)
> > 
> > PS: I really don't have a clue about implementation details here, so any
> > hints are more than welcome.
> > PPS: Doesn't seem distro-related, Helio has the same issues on Fedora,
> > self- compiled Plasma 5
> > 
> > [1]
> > http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2014/06/where-are-my-systray-icons/
> > [2] https://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/16456
> 
> Alright. I fixed my issue with "Pidgin" by installing another plugin:
> Installed the 'pidgin-indicator' plugin [1], which provides an AppIndicator.

good :-)

> 
> PS: IOW that means, Xembed-based icons still don't seem to work for me. Is
> this an Ubuntu-only problem or am I missing something? (I have a Qt5-based
> app, using QSystemTrayIcon, whose systray icon doesn't show up)

do you use Qt 5.4? As indicated in my blog post Qt 5.3 is not sufficient and 
needs a patch. Also the frameworksintegration plugin needs to be adjusted for 
running with Qt 5.3+patch IIRC.

Cheers
Martin
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