Bug 74596

Summary:	strange drawing in systray under the icons
Product:	[Unmaintained] kicker	Reporter:	Gioele Barabucci <dev>
Component:	systemtray	Assignee:	Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Attachments:	screenshot of the strange behavoir

Description Gioele Barabucci 2004-02-08 18:04:31 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.2.0)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages

some lines are drawn under the icons in systray.
There are two pixels between the handle and the first icon.
When you move the mouse slowly over these pixels, some lines appear under the icons (it seems a frame) and stay until you move away from the systray applet. These lines remain also while you move over the icons.
If you go fast to the icons, these lines will not appear.

PS: I use Qt 3.3.0

Comment 1 Gioele Barabucci 2004-02-08 18:33:49 UTC

I forgot to say that I run kicker with "Tiny" size and positioned on "top center".

Comment 2 Aaron J. Seigo 2004-02-09 03:34:37 UTC

is your panel transparent, as well?

Comment 3 Gioele Barabucci 2004-02-09 17:41:58 UTC

no, the panel is not trasparent nor I use background images

Comment 4 Gioele Barabucci 2004-02-09 18:44:41 UTC

Created attachment 4601 [details]
screenshot of the strange behavoir

Comment 5 Gioele Barabucci 2004-02-09 18:47:19 UTC

I checked now and I found that the bug is  NOT related to the kstyle used (btw I use plastik).

Comment 6 Aaron J. Seigo 2004-02-24 03:08:41 UTC

ah.. this is not a bug, it's a feature. it's the automagically appearing frame around the systemtray when you have the handles hidden (as you do). the reason this was done was because without the handles and without the frame, it was not possible to distinguish the systray icons from other icons on the panel and resulted in user confusion.

Comment 7 Gioele Barabucci 2004-02-24 11:25:14 UTC

Please reopen the BR. At "Tiny" size those lines it has no meaning: only vertical bars are drawn, the others are hidden behind the icons!

Look at the screenshot I attached, do those two vertical bars really distinguish the systray icons or are just two strange lines?

PS: even if I set "Always show handles", these lines are still shown only when the mouse pointer is over.

Comment 8 Aaron J. Seigo 2004-02-24 15:23:20 UTC

the behaviour only changes when the system tray is reloaded (e.g. konqi is reloaded), which is why you continue to see the behaviour.

as for re-opening the BR, the drawing issue at size "tiny" is unfortunate but neither new or related to the mouse-over behaviour ... it's a prettification that could be made to the overall drawing of the systray.

a new wishlist entry that says "the frame used around the system tray is ugly, make it pretty" would be cool ... but this specific BR is closed.