Bug 347825

Summary:	qt-recordMyDesktop does not show a systray icon and recording cannot be stopped
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	DrSlony <bugs>
Component:	System Tray widget	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	normal	CC:	bugs, johnsc301, kde, sasha2048
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.3.0
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
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Description DrSlony 2015-05-17 10:11:50 UTC

I realize this is not a bug in Plasma 5, but I don't know of a better place to file this report. qt-recordMyDesktop minimizes to a systray icon so recording can be stopped. This works in KDE4, but in Plasma 5 no systray icon appears, and the only way to stop recording is to kill the process - the written video and audio streams are then unusable. This is probably not only an issue with qt-recordMyDesktop but with all apps which use the old systray plug. What are users of Plasma 5 to do? Is there a workaround, or is the only option to wait for a Plasma 5 version of these apps to be released?

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 David Edmundson 2015-05-17 17:48:50 UTC

We dropped support for the super legacy X system tray protocol and only support the  AppIndicator/StatusNotifierItem protocol

For any Qt5 app this will happen automatically, all KDE4 apps used this directly, and there are modules for GTK. Plain Qt4 is missing, unless that app adds support themselves.

See http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2014/06/where-are-my-systray-icons/

Comment 2 David Edmundson 2015-05-17 17:49:52 UTC

The GTK version seems to have support: 
http://www.webupd8.org/2010/09/install-gtk-recordmydesktop-with.html

Comment 3 DrSlony 2015-05-17 18:16:37 UTC

I tried media-video/gtk-recordmydesktop-0.3.8-r3 and media-video/qt-recordmydesktop-0.3.8-r2 and neither showed a systray button.

Comment 4 Sasha Unspecified 2016-10-21 16:59:19 UTC

FYI:
KUbuntu 16.04.1, gtk-recordmydesktop 0.3.8-4.1ubuntu1 — systray button exists, but has no icon; i.e. looks like a gap between other systray buttons (Keyboard Layout and Audio Volume), so not easy to guess that it belongs to recordmydesktop.