This is not so much a KDE Plasma 5 issue, but more an issue of legacy applications still not supporting a reasonable systray protocol (SNI). There are workarounds like [sni-qt](https://launchpad.net/sni-qt), but this won't help with crippled/statically linked applications like Skype.
For more details on what's going on here, see this blog post by KDE's kwin developer Martin Gräßlin: http://blog.martin- graesslin.com/blog/2014/06/where-are-my-systray-icons/ I'm undecided whether distributions should really put effort in workarounds for legacy apps or instead should put pressure on the upstream of those projects to finally adopt SNI. - In one case, the user experience might suffer when a user expects an application to continue to work as "it always did" - In the other case, it keeps the whole ecosystem from finally adopting modern best practices and communicates to upstream projects "it's fine to use outdated technologies". -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1455711 Title: pidgin icon does not appear in the System Tray on kde 5 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pidgin/+bug/1455711/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
