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elav

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The icon in the system tray of KDE Telepathy not shown

Hello everyone

In the transition to Plasma5, in KDE4 there are things that are missing, or at least I can not find them. I want to start with what gives birth to this issue, which is that in the options of the system tray does not come out (as before), the icon of KDE Telepathy. If I open the contact list and close passes into the background, but maintains the connection icon is displayed. Any way to fix this?

Another element that "disappeared" from System Preferences was the scheduler. Does anyone know anything about it?

Thanks for your time.

Last edited by elav (2015-08-06 17:34:20)

arojas

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Re: The icon in the system tray of KDE Telepathy not shown

Telepathy and kcron have moved to kf5 so they won't show up in kde4 anymore. This will happen for more applications as they are ported to kf5.

elav

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Re: The icon in the system tray of KDE Telepathy not shown

Excuse my language, but that is shit. Are not you supposed they were going to give KDE4 support for users who did not want to go to Plasma? They are taking away things KDE4 to force the user to switch to Plasma5? Thanks for the info arojas.

arojas

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Re: The icon in the system tray of KDE Telepathy not shown

If you want a fully working kde4 desktop then Arch is not the right choice. We ship the latest versions of every application, and for kde that means kf5. We are not going to maintain two different versions of every kde package just to accommodate users that don't want to move on to Plasma 5 yet.

Slithery

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Re: The icon in the system tray of KDE Telepathy not shown

Exactly the same thing happened when Gnome switched to version 3 and look what happened, an Arch user forked it and it's now called Mate.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MATE
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=121162

If the KDE4 community really want to stay with version 4 then it can happen, that's one of the pros of open-source.

Edit - Looks like there's a KDE3 port as well called Trinity so that means there are forks of the previous versions of both of the 'big' DE's. So looking good for a KDE4 port at some point in the future then

Last edited by Slithery (2015-08-06 23:03:08)

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elav

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Re: The icon in the system tray of KDE Telepathy not shown

Well, I think that is a big mistake, but you know what they do ..