Ubuntu Unity - GOODBYE SYSTEM TRAY
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I booted into Ubuntu Unity and was shocked to discover my app no longer displays in the system tray. After looking around, I found this,
Unity includes the system tray only for a few specific applications via a "white list"...
This is, unfortunately, Canonical's way of trying to dictate how everyone else uses their system: they have decided that the system tray is incompatible with their user interface philosophy, and they want everyone to re-write their apps to use their notification system.
WTF?
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"Their notification system" is actually something that was developed on freedesktop.org. So some might consider that a standard... Unity and KDE both use it, gnome 3 has decided to use their own incompatible system.
"Aaron Seigos blog post":http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2011/03/collaborations-demise.html on this has triggered a heated discussion on collaboration between free desktop environments recently. Check out the various follow ups from Gnome and Cannonical, too, to get the complete picture.
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[quote author="genjix" date="1305265502"]This is, unfortunately, Canonical's way of trying to dictate how everyone else uses their system[/quote]
That's why I have never been a fan of Ubuntu. There are a plenty of really free Linux distributions and it is never too late to get rid of the Ubuntu :)
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This is a bit of a copy of a "discussion":http://lists.qt.nokia.com/pipermail/qt-interest/2011-May/033625.html started at the qt-interest mailinglist. Thiago "answered":http://lists.qt.nokia.com/pipermail/qt-interest/2011-May/033626.html there:
[quote][quote] I booted into Ubuntu Unity and was shocked to discover my app no longer displays in the system tray. After looking around, I found this,[/quote]Correct. Unity uses the new systray protocol called "indicators" or "notification item", which Qt doesn't support yet.
Canonical developers have prepared a patch for Qt to add this support and to add support for the global menu, but this isn't integrated into Qt yet.[/quote]
So, the issue can be addressed in Qt, but the patch has not reached the mainlines (yet).
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[quote author="Andre" date="1305271447"]This is a bit of a copy of a "discussion":http://lists.qt.nokia.com/pipermail/qt-interest/2011-May/033625.html started at the qt-interest mailinglist. Thiago "answered":http://lists.qt.nokia.com/pipermail/qt-interest/2011-May/033626.html there:
[quote][quote] I booted into Ubuntu Unity and was shocked to discover my app no longer displays in the system tray. After looking around, I found this,[/quote]Correct. Unity uses the new systray protocol called "indicators" or "notification item", which Qt doesn't support yet.
Canonical developers have prepared a patch for Qt to add this support and to add support for the global menu, but this isn't integrated into Qt yet.[/quote]
So, the issue can be addressed in Qt, but the patch has not reached the mainlines (yet).[/quote]
Thanks for the clarification was wondering what to do with the not showing in the systray since upgrading.
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Why not switch to "ye OLD Ubuntu Classic"? I knew it is still supported. I also have apps which uses the system tray. The patch would also be a great help to us but I guess we will just have to wait this time.