Bug 281406

Summary: Starting user apps with systray icon distorts/oversizes the systray theme part, restarting Plasma makes it ok
Product: [Plasma] plasma4 Reporter: Martin Klapetek <mklapetek>
Component: widget-systemtrayAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: asraniel, g2, kde
Priority: NOR    
Version: 4.8.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Unlisted Binaries   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:
Attachments: Systray theme issue
Original icon scaling
Oversizing due to device manager icon!
Oversizing due to VLC icon!

Description Martin Klapetek 2011-09-05 15:47:15 UTC
Created attachment 63406 [details]
Systray theme issue

Version:           unspecified (using Devel) 
OS:                Linux

Everytime I start my desktop, the systray has a shiny looking frame around it. The icons start popping up and all looks pretty. Until there's some QApp/non-KDE app. Once this puts its icon in the tray, the frame around the tray just breaks and goes away, resulting in ugly-themed-systray. It also happens when a notification comes in (so probably when the (i) applet shows in tray). Restarting/crashing plasma-desktop makes the systray look ok. Until there's another app/notification, then it goes back to the ugly-tray. See the screenshot for better understanding.

May this be the theme issue? I'm using Androbit, but I've seen this with other themes as well. Oh and I'm running KDE from git (but it's been annoying me for a while now, like from 4.6.something).

See the attached screenshot, which shows the systray after plasma start and also after restart.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1/ Log into desktop
2/ Watch your systray

Actual Results:  
The part of the theme for systray gets messed up after certain icons shows there.

Expected Results:  
The systray stays as it was on plasma-desktop load and as the theme should look like.
Comment 1 g2 2012-02-02 19:48:07 UTC
I can confirm this bug, running on a Gentoo KDE 4.80. 

The following applications caused system tray icon rescaling (see attachments):
1. Device Mapper
2. VLC
3. Bangarang
4. Skype
5. ...

In conrast to the original bug report, restarting of plasma-desktop wont work (using kquitapp plasma-desktop and afterwards plasma-desktop).
Comment 2 g2 2012-02-02 19:48:57 UTC
Created attachment 68444 [details]
Original icon scaling
Comment 3 g2 2012-02-02 19:49:55 UTC
Created attachment 68445 [details]
Oversizing due to device manager icon!
Comment 4 g2 2012-02-02 19:50:19 UTC
Created attachment 68446 [details]
Oversizing due to VLC icon!
Comment 5 Myriam Schweingruber 2012-05-27 11:38:20 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 273580 ***