Bug 309181

Summary:	system icons jump in the system tray when starting playback of audio
Product:	[Applications] kmix	Reporter:	Damian Kaczmarek <rushpl>
Component:	KMix Panel Docking	Assignee:	Christian Esken <esken>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	major	CC:	adaptee, kr
Priority:	NOR
Version:	4.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://dragon.rushbase.net/~rush/kde-jumping-tray.avi
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Damian Kaczmarek 2012-10-29 01:47:12 UTC

Please see this short video of how it looks: http://dragon.rushbase.net/~rush/kde-jumping-tray.avi





Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Have similiar setup to mine .. presumably?
2. Have no audio playing and start playing audio - which triggers the sound volume icon, which triggers the layout jumping ..
3. Stay calm. :)
Actual Results:  
Icons jumping like crazy.

Expected Results:  
Icons not jumping like crazy.

What is interesting is that the bug is triggered by audio even though the sound volume is set to be visible all the time. As system tray is a very important part of the environment I consider this a major problem.

Comment 1 Damian Kaczmarek 2012-11-03 11:38:21 UTC

If anybody is experiencing this issue, a workaround is to use Veromix plasmoid and killing Kmix altogether. Veromix is such a great volume control app which I can fully recommend.

Comment 2 kraven 2012-11-11 11:34:02 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> If anybody is experiencing this issue, a workaround is to use Veromix
> plasmoid and killing Kmix altogether. Veromix is such a great volume control
> app which I can fully recommend.

I have looked at your video and i had the same issue and solved it in the same way with the Veromix plasmoid. But i saw, that you're using Clementine too and i had the problems only, since i have switched to Clementine. I thought, it has something to do with the Clementine notifications or replay gain settings, but different settings (with/no replay gain, with/no notifications) doesn't resolve the problems, except with the Clementine-OSD notification, the icon jumping/flickering is not so hard.

Comment 3 Christian Esken 2012-11-12 22:28:47 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 309045 ***