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davidedmundson / xembed-sni-proxy

Convert XEmbed system tray icons to SNI icons
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Dropbox peculiarity #25

Closed Crazy-Hopper closed 9 years ago

Crazy-Hopper commented 9 years ago

Hi, throughout all the possible xembed clients I tested, only the Dropbox icon gets garbled background copied from where the embedded window got mapped. All other windows don't exhibit such behaviour. Any idea why Dropbox would be in any way different?

vanoudt commented 9 years ago

Well, the first thing to do is to bug them to use a version of Qt that supports SNI (they say that they don't)... Not that that helps fix their weird xembed. Got the same symptoms here... see #6

Crazy-Hopper commented 9 years ago

apt-cache show dropbox | grep Dep Depends: procps, python-gtk2 (>= 2.12), python (>= 2.5), libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.20.0), libc6 (>= 2.4), libcairo2 (>= 1.6.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.16.0), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0), libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.20.1), lsb-release

I see no Qt here at all.

On the other hand, the whole purpose of this project is to make apps that aren't ready for SNI not to be lost.

Crazy-Hopper commented 9 years ago

Closing this as duplicate of #6.

tehnick commented 9 years ago

Any idea why Dropbox would be in any way different?

Personally I do not use Dropbox. But I have read that current versions of Dropbox use Qt5 < 5.4.2 and in this version of Qt5 systray icons were not fixed yet.

tehnick commented 9 years ago

I see no Qt here at all.

This is because unlike Skype and some other proprietary software Dropbox do not use system libraries but uses libraries shipped in the package. Try something like dpkg -L dropbox if you use Debian-based system to see the list of files.

tehnick commented 9 years ago

On the other hand, the whole purpose of this project is to make apps that aren't ready for SNI not to be lost.

Indeed. Just wait until Dropbox developers will update their packages. Systray-related bugs are well known to them.