indicator applet after upgrade

Aurélien Gâteau aurelien.gateau at canonical.com
Wed Sep 9 14:01:16 BST 2009


Harald Sitter wrote:
> Ahoy
> 
> yesterday I upgraded from jaunty to karmic and for whatever reason
> (most likely not implement, though I wonder how to properly implement
> this) the indicator applet did not get added to my plasma-desktop. BUT
> k-d-s currently deactivates the trays for konvi and kopete which in
> that particular combination is quite fatal. Kopete (probably due to
> the indicator plugin) does not quit when I click the X on the window
> deco, but continues running in background ... how to get it back?
> 
> So, here some thoughts on that:
> a) the indicator integrations should try to connect to the applet and
> only if that works out do their magic (that is if kopete really
> continues running because of the plugin)
> b) nuke the no-tray settings from k-d-s
> c) the indicator integrations should if successfully connected to the
> applet et all deactivate the tray icon from within the application
> (i.e. without any configs set... at least none that are not unique to
> the ingration, such as if the kopete plugin was configurable to hide
> or not hide the tray icon)

I agree. Now checking if this is technically possible without too much 
patches.

Aurelien



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