F22: what's wrong with system tray?

[Rex Dieter]

Reindl Harald wrote:

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> Am 27.05.2015 um 14:46 schrieb Rex Dieter:
>> Temlakos wrote:
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>>> On 05/27/2015 08:39 AM, Rex Dieter wrote:
>>
>>>> How did you install skype ?  I'm suspecting it may be bundling it's own
>>>> (unpatched) copy of Qt.
>>
>>> Long ago (years ago) I installed Skype from the skype.com site. Once I
>>> had it, I didn't want to mess with it, because sometimes an RPM runs
>>> into an insurmountable issue and won't install, and I didn't want to
>>> risk that.
>>
>> So, I ask so I can try to reproduce the problem.  It sounds like you're
>> implying you did *not* use skype's rpm, did you use some other method?
> 
> just select "Dynamic" as distribution and you get a simple tarball with
> static linked libraries and a 35 MB "sykpe" binary

The statically linked one will definitely not work right (wrt systray).

In short, anything not using the system Qt4 libraries won't work.

Testing now, I can confirm that is the case,
* the "Dynamic" statically linked one does not work
* the skype rpm does work (with sni-qt.i686)

-- Rex