*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 347188 ***

I don't think it is really a duplicate.

I think that we should detect if there is a tray or not (like in 347188), and if there is none, then we should not try displaying the tray at all.

Detecting a tray goes like :
- set it up ;
- if it doesn't work, then we have no tray.

So it's the same problem.

wouldn't it be better to simply add an option "disable tray-icon"? i really don't understand why a kde user must have a tray icon if he doesn't want to :)

Ekiga is a gnome program. It doesn't overload the user with choices, it makes sensible ones. Something some kde users seem to have a hard time grasping.

i'm not a kde user! i'm a user that doesn't like tray icon...and there are a lot out there! why should a gnome user be forced to have a tray icon? he opens ekiga and has ekiga on his desktop,on the application bar, and a tray icon...three times ? that's too much :p anyways i'm just joking, you're the developer and you choose what's the best thing to do...and tray or not I love ekiga!

ps: the only program I know that has tray icon and doesnt have an option to disable it is : Skype. and we all hate skype... :)

Which application bar ?
Where on the desktop ?

I generally have ekiga *only* in the tray.

for three times I mean something like this:  http://galeria.homelinux.org/d/61-2/ekiga.png
top tray
middle main window
bottom

Eh, hint : close the main window and you'll just have the tray.

You'll notice that by your logic all the apps you launch appear at least twice!