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What's the status of TTrayIcon and Ubuntu/Unity?
Today I tried to create an application with a TTrayIcon on Ubuntu with the latest LCL sources and the TTrayIcon doesn't show. I think it's been broken for years.
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It works just fine on Kubuntu.
It's more likely that unity has been broken for years... :)
Michael.
El 06/10/15 a les 23:08, Michael Van Canneyt ha escrit:
But only with the qt widgetset
Bye
No. I use the GTK 2 widgetset on Kubuntu. I've never used Qt yet.
Michael.
It works just fine on Kubuntu. It's more likely that unity has been broken for years... :)
Michael Van Canneyt wroteIt's more likely that unity has been broken for years... :)
+1
Exactly correct. This was a known problem from 3+ years ago (I remember reading about it years back). Canonical changed something in Unity's tray area, and it broke loads of applications using the tray area. A quick internet search will reveals stacks of reports on this.
Regards,
- Graeme -
No. I use the GTK 2 widgetset on Kubuntu. I've never used Qt yet. Michael.
El 07/10/15 a les 10:30, Michael Van Canneyt ha escrit:
Really, it doesn't work here with the gtk2 widgetset, only with qt. kubuntu 15.04, x86_64, with plasma 5.3.2
Bye
El 07/10/15 a les 17:08, Luca Olivetti ha escrit:
Though the same program, with the gtk2 widgetset, shows the tray icon in mageia 5 (with plasma 4.3.something).
Bye
El 07/10/15 a les 10:30, Michael Van Canneyt ha escrit: Really, it doesn't work here with…
I use plasma 4.
Michael.
El 07/10/15 a les 17:08, Luca Olivetti ha escrit: Though the same program, with the gtk2…
There is your answer...
If the desktop environments start to break standards, there is little we can do.
Michael.
Hi,
There is your answer... If the desktop environments start to break standards, there is little we can do.
There is an explanation here:
http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2014/03/system-tray-in-plasma-next/ and
http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2014/06/where-are-my-systray-icons/
Running "wmsystemtray --non-wmaker --bgcolor white" as indicated in the second blog page and the TTrayIcon go there.
Patrick
There is your answer... If the desktop environments start to break standards, there is…
In the future one thing we can do, if the desktop environment is popular enough (I'd argue that Ubuntu is the most popular Linux for desktop users distribution) is:
* Make a note of the problem
* Provide links to resources where people could start if they want to work on a fix
Regarding point #1, on this page I see nothing noting the problem, even though it;s been in existence since Unity was made the default interface in 2011 (more than four years ago):
http://wiki.freepascal.org/TrayIcon#Help.2C_Bug_Reporting_and_Feature_Request
Regarding point #2, here is some information which we could maybe link to in the wiki or some other place of prominence:
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