Bug 485247

Summary:	System tray starts with an empty space to the left of the show hidden icons button
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Axel <edgar.serrano.9803>
Component:	System Tray widget	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	catharsisiaml69420, materka, nate, sfr682k
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	regression
Version First Reported In:	6.0.3
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Axel 2024-04-08 21:29:35 UTC

SUMMARY
Hiding system tray entries or any event that causes the tray to update gets rid of the problem. But if u kill plasmashell n start it again there it is

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Customize the panel
2. Start plasma

Arch Linux

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2024-04-09 14:33:20 UTC

Please attach a screenshot that shows the problem.

Comment 2 Axel 2024-04-09 14:43:47 UTC

Created attachment 168309 [details]
The bug

Comment 3 Nate Graham 2024-04-09 20:07:38 UTC

Thanks. Can't reproduce it myself. I've seen it in the past, but it stopped happening long ago.

Comment 4 Axel 2024-04-09 21:28:08 UTC

It's somewhat tricky. If I hide the brightness entry it never happens, but playing around with the entry switching back to breeze icon theme sometimes but very rarely n then switching back to papirus it stops happening. But deleting the panel n starting fresh can make it happen with breeze as well as long as the brightness entry is present

Comment 5 Sebastian Friedl 2024-04-23 12:33:36 UTC

On my Arch Linux system I observed a similar "empty space". It turned out to be the keyboard layout indicator, which was not able to determine the current keyboard layout and therefore displayed nothing.

I was able to solve this by setting the keyboard layout through KDE's system settings or using "localectl set-keymap XY".

Comment 6 Filip 2024-05-07 18:01:21 UTC

*** Bug 486740 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 Nate Graham 2024-05-09 19:09:25 UTC

Thanks Sebastian. Sounds like that was something else.

Axel, if you click in the empty spot, does anything happen? And do you have the Activity Switcher widget on your panel? Or are you using an icons-and-text Task Manager, perhaps with multiple rows?

Comment 8 Axel 2024-05-11 13:43:24 UTC

I'm on Fedora KDE now, I can't reproduce this even if I try. I can't reproduce it either on neon unstable. I don't have arch available to test anymore, maybe I should close this as an Arch specific issue?

Comment 9 Nate Graham 2024-05-15 04:31:08 UTC

Thanks! I guess your issue is fixed now and others have a different issue. Those still able to reproduce the issue in Plasma 6.0.5 (which is being released in a week, and contains a fix for this issue when you have an Activity Switcher widget in your panel) should open new bug reports. Thanks everyone!