Hi, have been using Thunderbird with the “MimimizeToTray revived” addon since many years, working fine with openSUSE 13.2
Just installed openSUSE Leap 42.1 and noticed that Thunderbird cannot miinimize/close to system tray.
Anyone using share the same experience?
Plasma5 dropped support for old-style (XEmbed) system tray icons.
You could use wmsystemtray or icewmtray to display them though.
See also here:
http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2014/06/where-are-my-systray-icons/
As Thunderbird uses GTK2, it might be enough to install libappindicator1 though.
Installed libappindicator1 and libappindicator3-1 , Dropbox is now okay but the Thunderbird is not.
KDE is supposed to be ease of use but seems like developers think otherwise. lol!
Thanks anyway.
Hm, I don’t know that plugin and I don’t use Thunderbird at all.
Maybe there’s a better one available though?
But, if Thunderbird closes instead of hiding, it seems to be a bug in that plugin or Thunderbird.
Have you tried running wmsystemtray or icewmtray (which should be installed by default) before Thunderbird?
KDE is supposed to be ease of use but seems like developers think otherwise. lol!
No, they don’t really.
But sometimes what one thinks of as “easy”, other people might not find “easy”…
I don’t see how this is related here though.
This is about removing an obsolete (since years…) feature, that was broken by definition the way it had been designed back then, to make the code easier to maintain and avoid unnecessary bugs.
KDE 4/5 and GNOME/GTK applications shouldn’t need it anyway if you installed the necessary packages (maybe the default openSUSE patterns might still need some adjustments regarding this though).
Still, a workaround might included in Plasma 5.5 to make old-style icons work again out of the box.
Thanks anyway.
You’re welcome.