Hi, Quoting from Marco Martin's blog post: http://notmart.org/blog/2014/06/systemtray-plasma-next-and-gtk/ (Annotations from me are enclosed in parentheses.) > You may have heard that KDE Plasma Next won’t support anymore the old > X11,Xembed-based systemtray icons. (KDE Plasma Next is the next major version of the KDE workspace(s), to replace the current KDE Plasma 4 workspace(s). In particular, the new version is scheduled to replace KDE Plasma Desktop 4 in Fedora 22.) > (More information here > [http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2014/03/system-tray-in-plasma-next/]) (I already posted a message to this mailing list back then.) > Years ago, we developed a nicer, model/view based alternative in which is > the shell that actually draws the systemtray icon, allowing better > integration with the workspace, it’s a specification that is now shared > between KDE and Ubuntu Unity. > All KDE applications use it already, Qt4/Qt5-only application will use it > depending on a small patch (and soon Qt5 will do out of the box) > > But also GTK has some options: until today I was aware only about the > Ubuntu’s appindicator library [https://launchpad.net/libappindicator], but > I have just been contacted by the author of another neat library, that can > be found here on GitHub [https://github.com/jjk-jacky/statusnotifier]. > It’s a very small, few dependencies GObject-based library that allows a > GTK3 application to export and control a statusnotifier-based systemtray > icon. I just tested it on KDE4 and Plasma Next and seems to work quite > well. > So if you have a GTK application that is using a systemtray icon, and you > would like the icon to be integrated in the next version of Plasma as > well, now you have an option more (and of course, the author will be happy > of any patch/bugreport/bugfix). (Short version: If you maintain a GTK+ application that uses system tray icons, please work with upstream on getting it ported to either https://launchpad.net/libappindicator or https://github.com/jjk-jacky/statusnotifier by Fedora 22 at the latest, or enable existing upstream support ASAP.) Kevin Kofler -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
