> On July 18, 2016, 5:49 a.m., Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> > I acknowledge the problem in general, but I think the solution is wrong as 
> > this creates now a race condition on startup where apps don't show up in 
> > the systray at all. That is if an application tries to create a systray 
> > icon before Plasma is started.
> 
> Martin Tobias Holmedahl Sandsmark wrote:
>     it still creates a systray icon, it just creates an "old style" tray icon.
> 
> Martin Gräßlin wrote:
>     > it still creates a systray icon, it just creates an "old style" tray 
> icon.
>     
>     Which won't work on Wayland. And yes that's a valid point as we need to 
> think further than 3 months ;-)
> 
> Martin Gräßlin wrote:
>     actually it won't even work on X11 as if Plasma is not up yet, neither 
> will be the xembed proxy. Which means no systray and Qt won't create it.
> 
> Martin Tobias Holmedahl Sandsmark wrote:
>     won't it jump into the xembed proxy when it appears? I seem to recall 
> that happening, but I might be wrong.
> 
> Martin Tobias Holmedahl Sandsmark wrote:
>     and regarding wayland, what does the "normal" platform plugin for wayland 
> do with QPlatformSystemTrayIcon?
> 
> Martin Tobias Holmedahl Sandsmark wrote:
>     well, I looked in qtbase, and apparently Qt has a SNI implementation, so 
> the fallback here should work under wayland?
> 
> David Edmundson wrote:
>     The Qt SNI won't work.
>     
>     That's in QGenericUnixTheme - however because we load our platform theme 
> (which subclasses QPlatformTheme) we don't load it - and it's private API so 
> can't (without changing Qt)

Anyhow, you don't agree that it is better for the application to not get a tray 
icon than recursing like this and not showing up at all and spinning like crazy?


- Martin Tobias Holmedahl


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On July 17, 2016, 8:14 p.m., Martin Tobias Holmedahl Sandsmark wrote:
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> (Updated July 17, 2016, 8:14 p.m.)
> 
> 
> Review request for Plasma.
> 
> 
> Repository: plasma-integration
> 
> 
> Description
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> 
> If the status notifier item host is not available, KSNI tries to create a 
> normal QSystemTrayIcon.
> 
> The plasma platform plugin uses KSNI when it is called to create a 
> QPlatformSystemTrayIcon.
> 
> So if the status notifier item host for any reason was unavailable, this 
> would recursively run forever (assuming a turing machine with infinite 
> memory).
> 
> 
> Diffs
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> 
>   src/platformtheme/kdeplatformsystemtrayicon.h 6825b4d 
>   src/platformtheme/kdeplatformsystemtrayicon.cpp 0e82385 
>   src/platformtheme/kdeplatformtheme.cpp 5f0407c 
> 
> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/128473/diff/
> 
> 
> Testing
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> 
> Now it is possible to run applications that have tray icons with the plasma 
> platform plugin even when the status notifier item host is down or 
> unavailable.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Martin Tobias Holmedahl Sandsmark
> 
>

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