On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 3:58 AM, Gerald B. Cox <gbcox@xxxxxx> wrote: > There was an issue introduced into Chrome beginning with Chrome 35 regarding > KDE system tray icons. Basically, with Chrome 35 if you don't have > libappindicator installed, you don't see them at all. > If you have libappindicator installed, you see the default blank sheet of > paper icon. > > This has been fixed now in Chrome 37 unstable. > > If you don't have libappindicator it is fixed by: > https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=267195 > which is "Add X11 status tray icon support". > > If you have libappindicator installed, it is fixed by: > https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=362880 > which is "Systray icon for notification center is not available" > > There is a problem however in the implementation of 362880 that they didn't > quite get the icons sized correctly. That issue is still open: > https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=382487 > which is "System tray indicator icons are blurry in KDE" > > My understanding is that KDE5/PlasmaNext will *drop* support for the legacy > XEmbed-based system tray protocol, which means that if you are depending on > 267195 to show system tray icons, it won't work. I also understand that F21 > will be using KDE5/PlasmaNext. > > That being the case, it would be a good idea for all the Chromium/Chrome > users to go out and star 382487 so the Chromium team will fix this issue. > Otherwise, be prepared for blurry icons for KDE. > > > > _______________________________________________ > kde mailing list > kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde > New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org So as long as Chrome supports libappindicator wouldn't that automatically work in KDE as it is libappindicator is derived from KStatusNotifier. Are they not drop in replacement for each other? [sarcasm]X11, libappindicator, KStatusNotifier, Message tray, etc. wow we make third party developer's life a cake walk.[/sarcasm] -- Regards, Sudhir Khanger. sudhirkhanger.com https://github.com/donniezazen _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
