Bug 974937 - The missing system tray icons in Fedora 19 Gnome3
Summary: The missing system tray icons in Fedora 19 Gnome3
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gnome-shell
Version: 19
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Owen Taylor
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-06-17 07:58 UTC by tnrgus
Modified: 2018-06-07 08:12 UTC (History)
18 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
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Last Closed: 2015-02-17 15:36:29 UTC
Type: Bug
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
GTK TrayIcon Example (907 bytes, text/x-c++src)
2013-06-21 04:29 UTC, tnrgus
no flags Details
A Screenshot on Fedora 18 (625.31 KB, image/png)
2013-06-21 07:38 UTC, tnrgus
no flags Details
Systray of Qt Example (26.55 KB, application/x-gzip)
2013-07-03 02:32 UTC, tnrgus
no flags Details
ScreenShot on Fedora 19 (1004.66 KB, image/png)
2013-07-03 08:35 UTC, tnrgus
no flags Details

Description tnrgus 2013-06-17 07:58:50 UTC
Description of problem:
When starting applications which need a system tray, their icons are missing from Gnome3 system tray.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
qt-4.8.4-19.fc19

How reproducible:
Run systray among Qt Example.

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual results:


Expected results:


Additional info:

Comment 1 Rex Dieter 2013-06-18 18:28:02 UTC
It is my understanding that system tray icons aren't shown (by default) in gnome3.

See also:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/155545/how-do-i-get-qsystemtrayicon-to-show-up-in-gnome-3

Comment 2 tnrgus 2013-06-19 01:06:28 UTC
(In reply to Rex Dieter from comment #1)
> It is my understanding that system tray icons aren't shown (by default) in
> gnome3.
> 
> See also:
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/155545/how-do-i-get-qsystemtrayicon-to-show-
> up-in-gnome-3

I could look for the icon near the bottom in the previous fedora version, but there are not those icons anywhere in Fedora 19.

Comment 3 Rex Dieter 2013-06-19 01:14:53 UTC
Not sure how gnome works, and bugzilla really isn't a tech-support, but...

reassigning to gnome-shell, for advice on where/how to find/see systray icons.

Comment 4 Florian Müllner 2013-06-20 14:45:10 UTC
(In reply to tnrgus from comment #2)
> I could look for the icon near the bottom in the previous fedora version,
> but there are not those icons anywhere in Fedora 19.

This should still be the case, e.g. we didn't make any (conscious) changes to the way legacy status icons are handled. Can you try to reproduce the problem with GTK+'s status icon implementation? I'm not seeing it here, so possibly something in QT's implementation changed which broken on GNOME.

Comment 5 Rex Dieter 2013-06-20 14:54:39 UTC
Re: comment #2

you mention "previous fedora version", which one?

Fwiw, we ship essentially the same Qt4 code on F17, F18, and F19 these days, so if it worked on f17/f18, and not f19, it's likely the failure is not Qt.

Comment 6 tnrgus 2013-06-21 00:17:36 UTC
(In reply to Rex Dieter from comment #5)
> Re: comment #2
> 
> you mention "previous fedora version", which one?
> 
> Fwiw, we ship essentially the same Qt4 code on F17, F18, and F19 these days,
> so if it worked on f17/f18, and not f19, it's likely the failure is not Qt.

It means F19.

Comment 7 tnrgus 2013-06-21 00:21:37 UTC
(In reply to tnrgus from comment #6)
> (In reply to Rex Dieter from comment #5)
> > Re: comment #2
> > 
> > you mention "previous fedora version", which one?
> > 
> > Fwiw, we ship essentially the same Qt4 code on F17, F18, and F19 these days,
> > so if it worked on f17/f18, and not f19, it's likely the failure is not Qt.
> 
> It means F18.

Comment 8 tnrgus 2013-06-21 00:27:39 UTC
(In reply to Florian Müllner from comment #4)
> (In reply to tnrgus from comment #2)
> > I could look for the icon near the bottom in the previous fedora version,
> > but there are not those icons anywhere in Fedora 19.
> 
> This should still be the case, e.g. we didn't make any (conscious) changes
> to the way legacy status icons are handled. Can you try to reproduce the
> problem with GTK+'s status icon implementation? I'm not seeing it here, so
> possibly something in QT's implementation changed which broken on GNOME.

Sorry, I am not good at gtk+ implementation.

Comment 9 tnrgus 2013-06-21 04:29:19 UTC
Created attachment 763635 [details]
GTK TrayIcon Example

Comment 10 tnrgus 2013-06-21 04:55:56 UTC
Comment on attachment 763635 [details]
GTK TrayIcon Example

I built and run this example on both Fedora 18 and 19.
It displays the system tray icon on Fedora 18, but the icon does not show on Fedora 19.

Comment 11 tnrgus 2013-06-21 07:38:06 UTC
Created attachment 763679 [details]
A Screenshot on Fedora 18

in the right corner of the notification area at the bottom of the screen

Comment 12 Florian Müllner 2013-06-24 13:38:26 UTC
Odd, the provided example works as expected here (either GTK+-2 or GTK+-3) ...

Comment 13 tnrgus 2013-06-25 00:51:23 UTC
(In reply to Florian Müllner from comment #12)
> Odd, the provided example works as expected here (either GTK+-2 or GTK+-3)
> ...

Fedora 19?

Comment 14 tnrgus 2013-06-25 08:33:55 UTC
If the desktop has the GNOME Panel Notification Area at first as soon as login, the systray example I mentioned shows a tray icon on Fedora 19.
But the GNOME Panel Notification Area is not always shown.

How can I display the notification area?

Comment 15 tnrgus 2013-06-25 08:39:18 UTC
If the desktop has the GNOME Panel Notification Area at first as soon as login, the systray example I mentioned shows a tray icon on Fedora 19.
But that area is not always shown.

Comment 16 Florian Müllner 2013-06-26 09:59:35 UTC
(In reply to tnrgus from comment #13)
> (In reply to Florian Müllner from comment #12)
> > Odd, the provided example works as expected here (either GTK+-2 or GTK+-3)
> > ...
> 
> Fedora 19?

Yes.

Comment 17 Florian Müllner 2013-06-26 10:02:02 UTC
Possibly related: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=701613.

Comment 18 tnrgus 2013-07-03 02:32:05 UTC
Created attachment 768013 [details]
Systray of Qt Example

Comment 19 tnrgus 2013-07-03 02:34:57 UTC
Please let me know the result of Qt Systray I attached.
Once installing Fedora 19 Desktop Edition, I run the systray of Qt Example. But I could not look for the system tray icon.

Comment 20 tnrgus 2013-07-03 08:35:08 UTC
Created attachment 768149 [details]
ScreenShot on Fedora 19

Comment 21 Stanislav Graf 2013-09-29 13:18:33 UTC
(In reply to tnrgus from comment #14)

https://wiki.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/KeyboardShortcuts

Toggle Message Tray
Super+M

Comment 22 Rex Dieter 2013-09-29 13:28:07 UTC
And, is this still reproducible using this update?

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-15571/gtk3-3.8.4-1.fc19

that includes the fix for the possibly-related
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=701613
mentioned in comment #17

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