Calibre 2.25.0 and Tray Icon (Archlinux)

shadowThief · 04-23-2015, 08:33 AM

Hi,
I liked the tray icon from Calibre 1.xx. I still got a tray icon in the early releases of Calibre 2.xx, but then the tray icon was removed because of a buggy QT5.
Since then it was enabled again, but I've never got my tray icon back.
I enabled and disabled the tray icon several times, with different releases of Calibre, but still don't get it back.
I'm using Archlinux with Gnome-Shell (kernel 3.19.3 and Gnome 3.16.1 right now) and the TopIcons extension (I tried it without the extension too).

Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?

kovidgoyal · 04-23-2015, 08:37 AM

Your desktop environment needs to support the StatusNotifier spec. You can run calibre in debug mode and it will print out what the problem is:

calibre-debug -g

shadowThief · 04-23-2015, 08:55 AM

You are right, no StatusNotifier spec seems to be supported

Quote:

calibre 2.25 isfrozen: False is64bit: True
Linux-3.19.3-3-ARCH-x86_64-with-glibc2.2.5 Linux ('64bit', 'ELF')
('Linux', '3.19.3-3-ARCH', '#1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Apr 8 14:10:00 CEST 2015')
Python 2.7.9
Linux: ('', '', '')
Successfully initialized third party plugins: KoboTouchExtended && Extract ISBN && Count Pages && Kobo Utilities
Starting up...
DEBUG: 0.0 KoboUtilites::action.py - loading translations
DEBUG: 0.0 KoboUtilites::dialogs.py - loading translations
DEBUG: 0.0 KoboUtilites::action.py - loading translations
Unable to open ~/.mtpz-data for reading, MTPZ disabled.
Failed to create system tray icon, your desktop environment probably does not support the StatusNotifier spec
DEBUG: 1.0 No Kobo Touch, Glo or Mini appears to be connected
DEBUG: 1.0 rebuild_menus - self.supports_ratings=None
Started up in 1.57 seconds with 677 books

kovidgoyal · 04-23-2015, 08:58 AM

The desktop environments that I know support StatusNotifiers are KDE 4/5 and Unity. I've never used gnome 3.x, so I dont know about it.

mbovenka · 04-23-2015, 10:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

The desktop environments that I know support StatusNotifiers are KDE 4/5 and Unity. I've never used gnome 3.x, so I dont know about it.

That wasn't what you said back in November

The 2.8 release notes included Gnome 3 as supported, so probably something else is wrong.

kovidgoyal · 04-23-2015, 11:11 AM

Thanks for reminding me, I did setup a VM for gnome 3 at the time, in which it did work. Though I cannot remember what distro/version of GNOME it was now.

EDIT: I think it was Ubuntu with the GNOME desktop environment instead of Unity, in fact, I probably still have that VM, so I can check

kovidgoyal · 04-23-2015, 11:14 AM

Yes, in my Ubuntu 14.10 VM with the GNOME Flashback (Metacity) desktop environment the system tray works.

shadowThief · 04-23-2015, 04:09 PM

Only in Gnome Flashback or in Gnome Shell too? What Gnome Version was this?

kovidgoyal · 04-23-2015, 10:01 PM

Whatever version of gnome comes with Ubuntu 14.10. And it was GNOME flashback only.

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04-23-2015, 08:33 AM	#1
shadowThief Member Posts: 11 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2015 Location: Germany Device: Kobo Aura H2O	Calibre 2.25.0 and Tray Icon (Archlinux) Hi, I liked the tray icon from Calibre 1.xx. I still got a tray icon in the early releases of Calibre 2.xx, but then the tray icon was removed because of a buggy QT5. Since then it was enabled again, but I've never got my tray icon back. I enabled and disabled the tray icon several times, with different releases of Calibre, but still don't get it back. I'm using Archlinux with Gnome-Shell (kernel 3.19.3 and Gnome 3.16.1 right now) and the TopIcons extension (I tried it without the extension too). Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?

04-23-2015, 08:37 AM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,858 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Your desktop environment needs to support the StatusNotifier spec. You can run calibre in debug mode and it will print out what the problem is: calibre-debug -g

04-23-2015, 08:58 AM	#4
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,858 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	The desktop environments that I know support StatusNotifiers are KDE 4/5 and Unity. I've never used gnome 3.x, so I dont know about it.

04-23-2015, 11:11 AM	#6
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,858 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Thanks for reminding me, I did setup a VM for gnome 3 at the time, in which it did work. Though I cannot remember what distro/version of GNOME it was now. EDIT: I think it was Ubuntu with the GNOME desktop environment instead of Unity, in fact, I probably still have that VM, so I can check

04-23-2015, 11:14 AM	#7
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,858 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Yes, in my Ubuntu 14.10 VM with the GNOME Flashback (Metacity) desktop environment the system tray works.

04-23-2015, 04:09 PM	#8
shadowThief Member Posts: 11 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2015 Location: Germany Device: Kobo Aura H2O	Only in Gnome Flashback or in Gnome Shell too? What Gnome Version was this?

04-23-2015, 10:01 PM	#9
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,858 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Whatever version of gnome comes with Ubuntu 14.10. And it was GNOME flashback only.

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