Chrome (35+) System Tray Issues and KDE

[Gerald B. Cox]

Well, it "works" via
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=362880
but according to https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=382487
they need to tweak the size of the supplied app indicator icons.  The
artwork isn't at the proper resolution.
Should be a relatively simple fix, hopefully.  Just need people to star
that problem report.  Hopefully it won't
be like the original issue, which went through unstable and beta but didn't
get fixed until the issue surfaced
in the stable code.


On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 9:42 PM, Sudhir Khanger <sudhir at sudhirkhanger.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 3:58 AM, Gerald B. Cox <gbcox at bzb.us> wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
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> So as long as Chrome supports libappindicator wouldn't that
> automatically work in KDE as it is libappindicator is derived from
> KStatusNotifier. Are they not drop in replacement for each other?
>
> [sarcasm]X11, libappindicator, KStatusNotifier, Message tray, etc. wow
> we make third party developer's life a cake walk.[/sarcasm]
>
> --
> Regards,
> Sudhir Khanger.
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