FireTray does not appear in second SystemTray (KDE)

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FireTray does not appear in second SystemTray (KDE) #53

Closed rudolfl closed 12 years ago

rudolfl commented 12 years ago

Thunderbird 14 FireTray 0.4.2 Ubuntu 12.04 running KDE

I have FireTray icon in system tray. however, I have two panels, one on top, one on the bottom of screen. i wanted to show unread message counter in both panels. For some reason, System Tray on bottom panel has option to display FireTray, but one on the top panel does not.

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foudfou commented 12 years ago

Hi, I just tried with KDE 4.8 on my Fedora 17, and having the tray icon not show up in both panels seems the default for the few applications I launched (deluge, vlc) — so not only GTK-based applications. Is there a specific option I should toggle ? Isn't more of a KDE issue (in which case you may have more luck asking the KDE community) ?

foudfou commented 12 years ago

After some research, I found out that system tray icons in KDE are added with DBus (org.freedesktop.StatusNotifierItem). AFAIK the libappindicator/StatusNotifier spec has not been accepted by GNOME.

FireTray uses GTK (GNOME) libs. It would require quite a lot of additional code to have FireTray connected to DBus. I believe it's out of the scope of this addon.

So I'll close this issue as WONTFIX. Feel free to reopen it if you feel I'm wrong.