[Development] Qt 5.2 Testing

[Richard Moore]

That's a bug in the design of Unity. See
http://www.howtogeek.com/68119/how-to-bring-app-icons-back-into-unitys-system-tray/

Regards

Rich.

On 14 October 2013 13:34, Jiergir Ogoerg <f35f22fan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> Is system tray supposed to work under Ubuntu Unity? cause it's been broken
> ever since Qt 5.0 I guesss, including the recent Qt 5.2 beta release, the
> problem is: the tray icon doesn't show up - but it does show up (i.e. works)
> in Kubuntu (same computer, logging out of Unity, logging in into
> kubuntu-desktop).
> For the record - the system tray in kde4/qt4 works ok under Ubuntu/Unity.
>
> Testing on amd64 Ubuntu 13.10 with all daily updates installed.
> I only found this bug reported though I'm not sure it addresses this
> problem:
> https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-30079
>
> To be more specific this code works in Kubuntu but doesn't in Ubuntu/Unity
> (amd64 13.10 daily):
>
> int main(int argc, char *argv[])
> {
>     QApplication app(argc, argv);
>     gst_init(NULL, NULL);
>
>     quap::ui::Win win;
>
>     QIcon icon("/home/fox/icon.png");
>     QSystemTrayIcon tray_icon(icon, &win);
>     tray_icon.setVisible(true); // WON'T SHOW UP under Ubuntu/unity
>
>     win.show();
>
>     return app.exec();
> }
>
> Kind Regards
>
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