Bug 88806

*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***

You can apply that patches, to get system tray with static icon (you can minimalize knode without closing)

[22:52 vip@dzibutti:...BUILD/kdepim-3.4.3/knode]% diff -uN knode.cpp /tmp/knode.cpp
--- knode.cpp   2005-10-05 15:35:42.000000000 +0200
+++ /tmp/knode.cpp      2005-11-06 22:50:11.375871750 +0100
@@ -42,6 +42,15 @@
 KNMainWindow::KNMainWindow( QWidget* pWidget )
   : KMainWindow(pWidget,"mainWindow")
 {
+  //create static tray icon
+  QPixmap icon;
+  tray = new KSystemTray(this, "knode");
+  KIconLoader *loader = KGlobal::iconLoader();
+  icon = loader->loadIcon("knode", KIcon::MainToolbar);
+  tray->setPixmap(icon);
+  tray->show();
+  tray->setCaption(QString("knode"));
+
   //setupStatusBar();
   createStandardStatusBarAction();
   setStandardToolBarMenuEnabled(true);


and

[22:52 vip@dzibutti:...BUILD/kdepim-3.4.3/knode]% diff -uN knode.h /tmp/knode.h
--- knode.h     2005-10-05 15:35:42.000000000 +0200
+++ /tmp/knode.h        2005-11-06 22:50:11.375871750 +0100
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@

 #include <kmainwindow.h>
 #include <kdialogbase.h>
+#include <ksystemtray.h>
 #include "resource.h"

 #include <qglobal.h>
@@ -63,6 +64,8 @@
   StatusbarProgressWidget *mLittleProgress;
   ProgressDialog *mProgressDialog;
   KRSqueezedTextLabel *mStatusMsgLabel;
+  KSystemTray *tray;
+
 private slots:
   void slotShowStatusMsg( const QString& );
 };

When will this patch make through the latest knode?

No progress on this issue? Perhaps for KDE 4 ?

Hey, people! It is really annoying bug. Can you fix it in KDE-4.4?

just fixed this for the latest kde4 trunk:

diff --git a/knode/knode.cpp b/knode/knode.cpp
index 55fddf7..b7e6e55 100644
--- a/knode/knode.cpp
+++ b/knode/knode.cpp
@@ -39,6 +39,11 @@
 KNMainWindow::KNMainWindow( QWidget* parent )
   : KXmlGuiWindow( parent )
 {
+  //create static tray icon
+  QPixmap icon;
+  tray = new KSystemTrayIcon("knode", this);
+  tray->show();
+
   //setupStatusBar();
   createStandardStatusBarAction();
   setStandardToolBarMenuEnabled(true);
diff --git a/knode/knode.h b/knode/knode.h
index 22f9408..5a398ab 100644
--- a/knode/knode.h
+++ b/knode/knode.h
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 
 #include <kxmlguiwindow.h>
 #include <kdialog.h>
+#include <ksystemtrayicon.h>
 #include "resource.h"
 
 #include <qglobal.h>
@@ -57,6 +58,7 @@ private:
   StatusbarProgressWidget *mLittleProgress;
   ProgressDialog *mProgressDialog;
   KSqueezedTextLabel *mStatusMsgLabel;
+  KSystemTrayIcon *tray;
 private slots:
   void slotShowStatusMsg( const QString& );
 };

oops, missed one line there...

diff --git a/knode/knode.cpp b/knode/knode.cpp
index 55fddf7..7d34795 100644
--- a/knode/knode.cpp
+++ b/knode/knode.cpp
@@ -39,6 +39,10 @@
 KNMainWindow::KNMainWindow( QWidget* parent )
   : KXmlGuiWindow( parent )
 {
+  //create static tray icon
+  tray = new KSystemTrayIcon("knode", this);
+  tray->show();
+
   //setupStatusBar();
   createStandardStatusBarAction();
   setStandardToolBarMenuEnabled(true);
diff --git a/knode/knode.h b/knode/knode.h
index 22f9408..5a398ab 100644
--- a/knode/knode.h
+++ b/knode/knode.h
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 
 #include <kxmlguiwindow.h>
 #include <kdialog.h>
+#include <ksystemtrayicon.h>
 #include "resource.h"
 
 #include <qglobal.h>
@@ -57,6 +58,7 @@ private:
   StatusbarProgressWidget *mLittleProgress;
   ProgressDialog *mProgressDialog;
   KSqueezedTextLabel *mStatusMsgLabel;
+  KSystemTrayIcon *tray;
 private slots:
   void slotShowStatusMsg( const QString& );
 };

Created attachment 70006 [details]
Patch against 4.8.1

Up.
Please upload patches as attachments.

This patch just add a systray not show number of unread item :)
So ok an systray but not usefull.
Please create a patch which is usefull :)
Sorry for the moment there is not active developper for knode.

I didn't create any patch, it's just the patch previously posted inline (which is a pain to copy paste because it doesn't recognize newline characters) bumped to 4.8.1 :)

Hello! Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but this project has been unmaintained for many years so I am closing this bug.