System tray icons

[James Colby]

On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 8:58 AM, James Colby <jcolby at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Is the "phantom" icon still responsive to context-clicks and does it still
>> display a tooltip (assuming you don't have that turned off) if hovered
>> over?
>
> Yes to both.
>
>>
>> What happens if you toggle desktop effects off?  Does the icon disappear?
>> (There's a default keyboard shortcut for toggling it, tho I've changed
>> mine.  The default is... looking it up... alt-shift-f12 .)
>
> Nothing changes with the system tray icons when I toggle the desktop effects
>
>>
>> What happens if you try killing plasma-desktop (from krunner or a konsole
>> window, traditional SIGTERM method: killall plasma-desktop, kde/dbus
>> method: kquitapp plasma-desktop), then restarting it?  Is the icon still
>> there, or now gone?
>
> This is strange, restarting plasma-desktop does remove the icon but it
> leaves a blank space in the system tray where the icon was located.
> Which makes for a really awful looking system tray.
>
>>
>> I'm wondering if it's simply an OpenGL or similar display glitch, tho
>> given the different hardware and drivers you've tried, I don't really see
>> how it could affect all of them.  None-the-less...
>>
>> Also, do try playing with the systray config options for that icon.  When
>> it's still shown, does setting the systray option to hide that icon hide
>> it, or...?
>
> The systray config options treat the "phantom" icons as expected.  It
> will hide the icon when asked, and it is show when 'show hidden icons'
>
>>
>> And finally, does ps/top/ksysguard/system-activity (the last being
>> available from the icon in krunner) still show the app after you've "quit"
>> it, or does it disappear from process list at that point?
>
> Once I have quit the application, the process does disappear from the
> process list.
>
>> --

Upgrading QT from 4.6.2 to 4.6.3 resolved the issue.  Thanks for the
suggestions all.
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