Chrome (35+) System Tray Issues and KDE

[Gerald B. Cox]

There was an issue introduced into Chrome beginning with Chrome 35
regarding KDE system tray icons.  Basically, with Chrome 35 if you don't
have libappindicator installed, you don't see them at all.
If you have libappindicator installed, you see the default blank sheet of
paper icon.

This has been fixed now in Chrome 37 unstable.

If you don't have libappindicator it is fixed by:
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=267195
which is "Add X11 status tray icon support".

If you have libappindicator installed, it is fixed by:
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=362880
which is "Systray icon for notification center is not available"

There is a problem however in the implementation of 362880 that they didn't
quite get the icons sized correctly.  That issue is still open:
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=382487
which is "System tray indicator icons are blurry in KDE"

My understanding is that KDE5/PlasmaNext will *drop* support for the legacy
XEmbed-based system tray protocol, which means that if you are depending on
267195 to show system tray icons, it won't work.  I also understand that
F21 will be using KDE5/PlasmaNext.

That being the case, it would be a good idea for all the Chromium/Chrome
users to go out and star 382487 so the Chromium team will fix this issue.
 Otherwise, be prepared for blurry icons for KDE.