GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 136352
QT apps that load before Panel put their icons on desktop instead of Notification area
Last modified: 2006-08-09 00:26:11 UTC
Description of Problem: The Gnome Panel does't load as first when logging into gnome session. This causes some problems with docking application (especialy written with QT libs). Problem is that tray icon of such application should appear in notification area, but while the notofication area (and the whole Panel) isn't started, the icon is placed somwhere on the desktop. The only posibility to move tray icon to Notification area is to close and start again that application. I also tried with different priority values of asuto starting applications (in session settings) but this didn't get me good result. Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. Install one of QT instatnt messengers (for example Kadu www.kadu.net or PSI). 2. Configure it for showing tray icon. 3. Quit from Gnome with saing a session. 4. Log into Gnome again. Actual Results: The tray icon of Kadu is not in Notification area but on the desktop (about left top corner). Expected Results: The tray icon placed in Notification area of Gnome Panel. How often does this happen? Always Additional Information: I think, that it should be forced in Gnome to load Gnome Panel as first or to delay starting of normal applications. It is quite logical. I cannnot find any reason to starting apps before Panel. Now I have such order and that even looks unprofessional and strange. The windows appear before desktop icons and before Panel. I use Fedora Core 1 with Gnome 2.4.
I guess this is the same bug (and if it is, it won't matter in wich order Gnome starts things, this is a problem anyway): When adding a notification area to the panel _after_ a qt app is started (in my case dcgui-qt), the icon isn't showed in the area as it should. 1. Start some applications (both gtk and qt ones) using the NA 2. Remove the NA from the panel 3. Add a new NA to the panel result: The gtk application's icons are showed properly in the NA, the qt application's icons are not.
Got this problem too. With dcgui-qt and Skype.
Probably related to bug #122391 (might even be the same bug...)
The problems are in eggtraymanager.c
Back to gnome-panel
If you can still reproduce this bug, can you add a comment to bug 122391? Thanks *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 122391 ***