On 26/11/14 10:44, Tom Hacohen wrote: > On 26/11/14 09:38, cunnilinux himself wrote: >> 2014-11-25 1:13 GMT+02:00 Carsten Haitzler <[email protected]>: >>> On Mon, 24 Nov 2014 16:13:48 +0200 cunnilinux himself <[email protected]> >>> said: >>> >>>> BTW, systray in 0.19.1 is almost usable (unlike 0.18.x & 0.19.0). >>>> to put it in details, it starts to work normally after just one >>>> enlightenment restart (when some app appeared there yet). >>>> so i even stopped using tint2 crutch, since restarting enlightenment once >>>> is lesser evil IMNSHO. >>> >>> turn off xmbed support. :) >> >> to put long story short: this works if all necessary stuff for >> appindicator protocol support is installed. (i am on arch linux, so it >> isn’t by default, thus no icons displayed.) >> >> thanx Carsten for pointing me the following link that clarifies this >> issue in details: >> http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2014/06/where-are-my-systray-icons/ >> >> after installing/patching all that stuff, one can turn xembed support >> off in systray module preferences and enjoy new appindicator style >> icons & menus (that look definitely better, btw). some apps that don't >> support appindicator at the moment still appear to tray xembed-style >> (no transparency, as for my setup), with no need to refresh or restart >> anything. >> >> working patch required for qt-4.8.6 can be found here: >> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/qt.git/plain/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.6-systemtrayicon.patch >> >> i don't have any qt5 stuff in my system at the moment, but should work >> out of the box. > > I've been talking to a guy from IRC and he's been working on sending the > ubuntu nm-applet patches upstream, so that's will hopefully be there > soon too. > > We are not getting rid of Xembed now, we'll get rid of it for e20 (this > means current master in git, but that too, doesn't have to happen now). > This means that we still have time to get things fixed in the relevant > upstream projects. > > As I've said before, the best advice I could give you, is to pester the > upstream projects to add appindicator support, and mention that many > other desktop environments have made the switch too, this means, it's > not an enlightenment issue. Furthermore, if their package is big enough, > Ubuntu is most likely patching it, and no upstream project likes to be > patched. :P
Oops, replied to this email before I read last night's patches. Apparently it's already removed from git. :) -- Tom. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157005751&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
