Bug 22493

Summary: media player controls in the Plasma5 system tray are unresponsive and can't be turned off
Product: Mageia Reporter: Dennis Nigbur <d.nigbur>
Component: RPM PackagesAssignee: KDE maintainers <kde>
Status: RESOLVED OLD QA Contact:
Severity: minor    
Priority: Normal CC: kde, marja11, ouaurelien
Version: 6   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
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Description Dennis Nigbur 2018-01-30 23:02:31 CET
Description of problem:
Since Mageia 6, an additional system tray icon - Media Player Controls - appears when a media player application is launched. 
Issue 1: This seems redundant because these controls can already be accessed from the Clementine tray icon (and from that of other media players such as Amarok and VLC). 
Issue 2: I can't remove this tray icon. Right-clicking and selecting "Quit" has no effect. 
Issue 3: The media player controls don't seem to work with Clementine. Open, Play, Next Track, etc. all have no effect. 

How reproducible:
Happens every time on my HP laptop. I haven't tested on another system yet.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Clementine and wait for the Media Player Controls icon to appear in the system tray.
2. Right-click on the icon and try functions such as Play, Next Track, etc.
3. Right-click on the icon and try to Quit.
Comment 1 Marja Van Waes 2018-01-31 11:24:51 CET
Thanks for your report.

Which desktop environment do you use? 

Would it be possible for you to check whether the issue is also present in one or more other desktop environments (Plasma5, Gnome, Xfce... )?

CC: (none) => marja11

Comment 2 Dennis Nigbur 2018-02-01 14:07:12 CET
Sorry about the omission. I use Plasma 5. 

I'll try a different desktop when I find the time, and report it here.
Comment 3 Marja Van Waes 2018-02-01 15:15:55 CET
(In reply to Dennis Nigbur from comment #2)
> Sorry about the omission. I use Plasma 5. 
> 
> I'll try a different desktop when I find the time, and report it here.

Thanks Dennis!

CC: (none) => kde

Comment 4 Marja Van Waes 2018-02-16 17:55:10 CET
I'm not sure this report should be assigned to KDE team, but doing so because I'm sure KDE team will understand this report better than I do.

Assignee: bugsquad => kde
Summary: media player controls in the system tray are unresponsive and can't be turned off => media player controls in the Plasma5 system tray are unresponsive and can't be turned off

Comment 5 Dennis Nigbur 2018-02-16 19:12:00 CET
I have had a change to try this on a different machine now. Same software (Mageia 6 with all current updates, Clementine, Plasma 5), different laptop. 

The controls ARE responsive here (so Issue 3 in my original post is not present on all machines). There is another issue in that the "Previous Track" function in the right-click menu is always greyed out and unavailable regardless of the current track's position on the playlist. 

Issues 1 and 2 are still current, though: The "media player" tray icon is superfluous and cannot be removed. On this hardware, right-clicking the icon and selecting "Quit" closes Clementine, not the icon. 

Another way to summarise all this: The tray icon is flaky, with different issues on different machines. There also doesn't seem to be any obvious need for it. So it should at least be possible to switch it off.
Comment 6 Aurelien Oudelet 2020-08-16 16:10:44 CEST
Mageia 6 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2019-09-30. It is no longer 
maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug 
fix updates.

Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan 
to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to 
a later Mageia version.

Bug Reporter: Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we 
weren't able to fix it before Mageia 6's end of life. If you are able to 
reproduce it against a later version of Mageia, you are encouraged to click 
on "Version" and change it against that version of Mageia.

Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's 
lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent
Mageia release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them
obsolete.

If you would like to help fixing bugs in the future, don't hesitate to join the
packager team via our mentoring program [1] or join the teams that fit you 
most [2].

[1] https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Becoming_a_Mageia_Packager
[2] http://www.mageia.org/contribute/

Best regards,
Aurélien
Bugsquad Team

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => OLD
CC: (none) => ouaurelien