F22 KDE Systray Issue

[Kevin Kofler]

Eric Griffith wrote:
> Quick Google search for "Gnome Shell Pidgin SysTray" had a fair few hits
> on how to get a working icon back. So it would appear that Gnome also did
> remove support for Xembed, likely even before KDE did.

GNOME Shell actually has limited support for the old XEmbed-based protocol 
(the icons end up hidden inside a popup menu, unless you install the 
"Topicons" extension) and does not support the Status Notifier Protocol at 
all (though there is now another third-party extension adding support for 
it). So GNOME Shell is no incentive for developers to move to the new 
protocol. (They'll end up with the same old protocol as before (through the 
XEmbed fallback code all the client-side Status Notifier implementations so 
far still carry) and the same crap support as before.)

The GNOME Shell developers refused to implement the Status Notifier 
specification because they claimed that it was "unclear" and that it doesn't 
fit their UI design goals. They just live in their own island and simply 
don't give a darn about interoperability with software written for Plasma or 
Unity.

        Kevin Kofler