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Bug 315996 - When closing and restarting system tray, icons disappear
When closing and restarting system tray, icons disappear
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: libegg
Classification: Other
Component: tray
unspecified
Other All
: Normal major
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Assigned To: Libegg maintenance
Libegg maintenance
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-09-11 15:26 UTC by Tomasz Melcer
Modified: 2006-07-28 21:44 UTC
See Also:
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Description Tomasz Melcer 2005-09-11 15:26:36 UTC 
Please describe the problem:
When I kill fbpanel and restart it, some tray icons (f.e. Gajim's one, which
uses egg tray) disappear, where others (like skype or psi) come back. The same
is when I restart gnome-panel or `trayer` (small system tray manager).

Steps to reproduce:
1. `fbpanel`
2. `gajim` (or other gtk app which uses eggtray); Gajim puts its icon into systray
3. `killall fbpanel`
4. `fbpanel`


Actual results:
There's no Gajim's system tray icon.

Expected results:
Gajim's icon appear in system tray.

Does this happen every time?
Yes

Other information:
Comment 1 Vincent Untz 2006-07-28 21:44:31 UTC 
EggTrayIcon could be enhanced to do this, but it's deprecated and no improvement are added to it. Applications like gossip have managed to do this, so it's possible to do this in the application.

But the app should be ported to GtkStatusIcon now.