Hi everyone.
I’m using openSUSE 12.1 with KDE and I ended up with the broken apper tray icon after some update. I get the blank space in the tray area instead of ‘You need to reboot’ or ‘You need to relogin’ icon after a corresponding update. For some reason it reserves more space for itself than any other icon. Here’s the screenshot
http://img607.imageshack.us/img607/554/apper.png
I understand that this is not a big deal but it kinda annoys my aesthetic feelings =)
Any suggestions on the direction where to dig to are appreciated. Thanks.
I’m not sure what’s missing?
If you mean the package kit applet, I suggest you don’t use it any way.
Did you say you had rebooted?
Yes it’s a packagekit applet but it’s not the same indicator that notifies about available updates. It’s the separate applet notifying when reboot or relogin is necessary. Of course it disappears after reboot/relogin. Whole thing looks just like a missing icon or a broken link.
I don’t see a reason not to use package kit – it works just fine.
In 11.4 it was broken
Advice was not to use it
I never use it any way. It unpredictable.
In my 12.1 installs it’s been dumped too.
But you may need to do a bug report, as it sounds like it is one.
It seems to be very specific and I have no idea how to reproduce it and I don’t even know what update broke this icon it may be every update since beta 2. I have almost the same 12.1 installation on my laptop and this applet works ok there.
I was hoping that someone can explain how do this applet icon work. I know that various applications in KDE work with the tray applets slightly different – some take their icons from /usr/share/kde4/apps/desktoptheme/something and ~/.kde4/share/apps/desktoptheme/something and some (e.g. KMail) work the different way.