Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1233 mails)

["David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 16 November 2008 18:58:50 Basil Chupin wrote:
> David C. Rankin wrote:
> > Atri Bhattcharya wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > > Is the problem with the system-tray icons being garbled in KDE 4.1
> > > expected to persist through the final release of 11.1? I believe this is
> > > an upstream problem, but with the new system-tray (already a part of
> > > Beta5 that has now added the feature for hiding icons) one would have
> > > expected them to be gone. That however is not the case yet. It really
> > > spoils the appearance of the (otherwise nice) KDE 4.1 desktop.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Atri
> >
> > Atri,
> >
> >     I don't know, but I can confirm strange behavior of the icon bundle (the
> > icons for systray apps). It looks like the icons are not really connected
> > to the panel. With the kicker panel set to autohide, the panel will hide,
> > but leave the systray icons floating alone on the desktop for nearly a
> > second before they disappear. So it is easy to imagine them getting
> > fouled up. On my B5 install, they haven't corrupted yet, but do show the
> > delay on hide.
>
> Interesting. I don't have such behaviour on the installations of 4.1 in
> either 11.0 or 11.1Beta5.
>
> Ciao.

Basil,

        I bet it is happening, but your just not catching it. It took me three 
tries 
with ksnapshot to catch the behavior, but a picture is worth 1000 words.

http://www.3111skyline.com/download/openSUSE_11.1/kicker-floating-systray.jpeg


-- 
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
kmail on openSuSE 11.1 Beta 5
http://counter.opensuse.org/11.1/small

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