Systray (was Re: F22 / KDE5)

[Eli Wapniarski]

Finally.... Someone gets the idea... Make sure the old stuff works before 
moving on to the new stuff

Yay!!!!




On Tuesday 15 September 2015 19:44:09 Reindl Harald wrote:
> here you go: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1233017
> 
> "Ksystraycmd won't work in Plasma 5, because it still uses the legacy
> XEmbed protocol" - well, a developers homework is to port first his own
> stuff *before* blame others that they need to switch and change something
> 
> Am 15.09.2015 um 19:42 schrieb Reindl Harald:
> > Am 15.09.2015 um 19:30 schrieb Emilio Recio:
> >> Hrm... odd on how you can still "Place in System Tray" checkbox in the
> >> Advanced Options for creating a link to application... but then I get
> >> the error:
> >> 
> >> KDEInit could not launch 'ksystraycmd':
> >> Could not open library '/usr/lib/libkdeinit5_ksystraycmd'.
> >> Cannot load library /usr/lib/libkdeinit5_ksystraycmd:
> >> (/usr/lib/libkdeinit5_ksystraycmd.so: cannot open shared object file: No
> >> such file or directory)
> >> 
> >> I don't know if it's a fedora thing or KDE thing...
> > 
> > a KDE thing, ksystraycmd was not ported to KF5 until now while the UI
> > does nothing else at put it in the .desktop file as result using that
> > checkbox, the same happens for anything which had the setting already
> > 
> > KF5 is at best pre-beta quality and the Fedora kde SIG honestly should
> > have realized that *before* throw it to long years users - i still seek
> > for any user visible improvement and have not found a single one
> > 
> >> On 09/15/15 11:57, Rex Dieter wrote:
> >>> Reindl Harald wrote:
> >>>> Am 15.09.2015 um 17:46 schrieb Eric Griffith:
> >>>>> On Sep 15, 2015 11:01 AM, "Emilio Recio"
> >>>>> <Emilio.Recio at jefferson.edu
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> <mailto:Emilio.Recio at jefferson.edu>> wrote:
> >>>>>   > But the point that I am trying to make is that KF5 should have
> >>>>>   > provided for a transitional phase for developers. Both
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> side-by-side.
> >>>>> 
> >>>>>   > Further, what is the argument for the new standard. The only
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> thing I
> >>>>> 
> >>>>>   > read was "you can make your icons prettier and in the right size".
> >>>>>   > This is not an excuse for removing basic functionality,
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> There is also the fact that the xembed specification had thumbnails
> >>>>> hardcoded to a specific size (22px by 22px) which was making them look
> >>>>> like crap on even my 1080p monitor, let alone 4k ones
> >>>> 
> >>>> well, i prefer something looking like crap when the other option is
> >>>> don#t have it at all
> >>> 
> >>> And... now we've come full circle, you have a "looking like crap"
> >>> option,
> >>> use wmsystemtray


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