Bug 17555

Summary: Plasma 5 Desktop - empty space in systray instead of plasmoids icons
Product: Mageia Reporter: Jüri Ivask <jyri2000>
Component: RPM PackagesAssignee: Nicolas Lécureuil <mageia>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Normal CC: admel.mga
Version: Cauldron   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
URL: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=352055
Whiteboard:
Source RPM: plasma-workspace CVE:
Status comment:
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 17523    
Attachments: system tray with missing icons screenshot

Description Jüri Ivask 2016-01-20 20:42:54 CET 
Description of problem: Plasma Desktop system tray has empty space instead of system tray icons - most affected is plasma-pa icon


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 5.5.3

When Plasma desktop starts the system tray has empty space instead of icons (see attached screenshot). Sometimes there are two missing icons, but mostly only plasma-pa icon is missing. Before last update (qt5.6beta; kf5.18; plasma5.5.3) workaround was to: unselect audio volume item->apply->select audio volume item->apply. However now reselecting the audio volume item->apply causes plasmashell to crash and retrying it once more freezes the desktop.

Upstream bug is at the above URL.

Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:
Comment 1 Jüri Ivask 2016-01-20 20:44:08 CET 
Created attachment 7366 [details]
system tray with missing icons screenshot
Comment 2 Rémi Verschelde 2016-02-02 12:52:50 CET 
I can confirm the bug too, though I think the KDE bug is badly triaged. From what I could see it's not plasma-pa specific, in my case I was more under the impression that it was triggered by the plugged in devices applet, or maybe by some effect due to the legacy system tray icons support (xembedsniproxy).

Blocks: (none) => 17523
Assignee: bugsquad => mageia
Source RPM: (none) => plasma-workspace

Comment 3 Jüri Ivask 2016-02-02 13:12:28 CET 
Managed to get plasma-pa icon working by starting plasma desktop with it not activated and activating it afterwards.
However, now I still have two empty non-clickable places in system dock.
Killing xembedsniproxy process removes them immediately.
Net-applet is set here not to autostart so maybe some other legacy tray icons...
Removable media applet seems to work OK here.
Comment 4 Rémi Verschelde 2016-02-02 13:14:51 CET 
(In reply to Jüri Ivask from comment #3)
> However, now I still have two empty non-clickable places in system dock.
> Killing xembedsniproxy process removes them immediately.

Yes it's the same for me, that's why I believe the KDE bug is badly triaged as it's filed against the "plasma-pa" component, while it's IMO related to xembedsniproxy. I'll try to add a comment there to mention it.
Comment 5 Jüri Ivask 2016-02-02 15:14:34 CET 
Only in that case if xembedsniproxy is the reason that plasma-pa icon does not appear at plasma desktop start leaving empty space in system dock... ;)
Comment 6 Rémi Verschelde 2016-02-25 10:03:50 CET 
*** Bug 17819 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

CC: (none) => antoine.dumondel

Comment 7 Jüri Ivask 2016-03-09 09:12:09 CET 
After update to Plasma 5.6beta at least Plasma5 icons seems to work now OK in system dock. Can we mark it as fixed? xembedproxy related issue is in a separate bug 17592
Comment 8 Nicolas Lécureuil 2016-05-05 09:14:37 CEST 
closing then

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED