VLC opens mysterious second window

[Gilboa Davara]

On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 17:06 -0700, Ryan Rix wrote:
> On Tue 11 May 2010 12:57:58 pm Gilboa Davara wrote:
> > On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 13:14 -0600, Petrus de Calguarium wrote:
> > > vlc-1.1.0-0.6.pre4.fc13.x86_64
> > > 
> > > I am not sure if this is the right place to post, but as VLC has been
> > > coming from kde-redhat lately, here goes...
> > > 
> > > When I open VLC, a mysterious second window opens. It is tiny, say about
> > > 0.5 cm wide and 1 cm long and it has the 'X' icon. One can stretch the
> > > window and there is just garbled nothingness inside. Closing VLC also
> > > closes this window. It is somehow tied to VLC. Under VLC View menu, I
> > > see docked playlist toggled on, but toggling it off does not close this
> > > window, yet it is somehow tied to VLC. Closing this window causes plasma
> > > to crash.
> > 
> > Seeing the same.
> > F12, latest KDE-unstable.
> 
> Sounds like the tray icon isn't being properly embedded in the system tray. 
> If you have icons set to auto-hide (you have an arrow in the system tray 
> allowing you to expand it) try clicking that to see if it re-embeds the 
> icon.

ACK.
Disabling the tray icon solves the problem.
Against which component should I report it? KDE or VLC?

- Gilboa