F22: what's wrong with system tray?

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Wed May 27 11:58:54 UTC 2015


Sudhir Khanger wrote:

> On Wednesday 27 May 2015 6:53:44 AM Temlakos wrote:
>> I installed wmsystemtray on one of my two systems. I have a crude
>> solution that at least reveals the system tray icons I have left. For
>> that legacy app (pwmanger), I removed all system tray options from the
>> configuration, so I can have access through the Task Manager system. But
>> I'd like a better solution than that.
> 
> Better solution would be asking 3rd party software developer to implement
> KStatusNotifierItems for Qt apps and libappindicator for gtk+ apps.

No need for Qt apps, they all should "just work".  Qt4 should use sni-qt, 
and Qt5 supports it natively.

It's only gtk+ that never natively supported SNI (so requires apps to use an 
extra library like libappindicator).

-- Rex



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