tray tip does not work properly in kde plasma 5

[yennor]

I've just updated from kde 4 to kde plasma 5.3 First there was no tray icon at all, but activating the app indicator plugin helped. now the gmusicbrowser icon is shown. Unfortunately there are several things not working properly.

• When a song changes, the tray tip window layout is not shown in the lower right corner, but just at the same position it is in the normal gmusicbrowser windows (see attachment)
• Also it doesn't get shown all the time a song changes (I think only the first time, but I dind't experiment a lot).
• When left clicking on the icon in the system tray, nothing happens, the gmusicbrowser window doesn't open. I have to first right click, and then choose show.
• when hovering with the mouse over the icon it does not show the tray tip. which is a real pitty, since I loved that function.
• Kde seems to automatically add a generic media player icon to the system tray, which shows the current playing song and stuff. Do you know if there is any way to disable that?

[squentin]

The app indicator/notify situation is a mess between the various desktops.

I plan to rework the various options and plugins into a single tab in gmb, and include a few workarounds that simply do not depend on the desktop : eg "show traytip window at x,y on song change", or "popup the traytip when the mouse cursor is in the top right corner".

About getting the traytip window when hovering over the icon (which is a feature I love too) you can in the meantime get something like the workaround I've described in the desktop widget plugin with the "invisible hotspot" widget, that simply places an invisible window, by default 1x1 top left, and shows the default traytip window (you have to edit the widget layout to change it), you'll probably want to check the "on top" option, and place the hot-spot somewhere that works (a panel can block it)

About the generic media player icon in the system tray, it may be the music menu, in that case, it uses the mpris2 plugin, but there should be a proper way to deactivate it in kde. (There used to be a checkbox in the plugin to not show gmb in the music menu, but that part has been removed from the standard)