Re: [E-devel] E17 problems with systray

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On Monday 08 February 2010 16:12:45 Krzysztof Borowczyk wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've found two problems, that I believe are E17 bugs - so I'd like to
> report them ;) . As I use Gentoo operating system, I've first reported
> them to Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri, after few emails exchanges he
>  directed me to this list.
> 
> So here are my problems:
> 
> 1. First problem is with positioning of window after you hide and
>  unhide it by clicking on it's icon in task bar. If it's GTK+
>  application, all seems OK, but if it uses Qt (tested on Qt4) it
>  appears every time on a lower position (lower by the height of title
>  bar).
> 
> Steps to reproduce (for psi jabber client):
> 
> 1) emerge -v1 psi  (assuming Gentoo OS)
> 2) psi &
> 3) click cancel when it asks to create account and close the startup
> help dialog
> 4) align the main window to the top of the screen (not necessary, but
> helps to spot the problem)
> 5) click multiple times on the icon in the tray
> 
> It's the same with kadu - GaduGadu client. I didn't test other
> applications.
> 

This is true. I have seen it happen too with qt4/kde4 applications. It 
seems more like a problem with qt4 instead of e since gtk applications 
work just fine.

> 2. Second problem is with hiding the window by clicking on it's icon on
> task bar when you are on different virtual desktop than the
>  applications window.
> 
> When you open some application (tested on psi, kadu - based on Qt,
> Sonata - based on GTK+) on one virtual desktop, then switch to some
> other and try to hide it by clicking it's task bar icon and come back
>  to that virtual desktop - the contents of the window (i.e. buttons,
>  text) disappear, but the window stays.

This seems to be a problem with whatever task bar management module you 
are using. I can not reproduce this problem with itask-ng.