plasma-systray-legacy package is currently available in Debian unstable
Hi Debian and Ubuntu KDE users,
Thanks a lot to David Edmundson who began xembed-sni-proxy project [1]. This
program allows users of KDE Plasma 5 to use applications which supports only
legacy system tray icons as simple as applications which support the SNI
specification.
xembed-sni-proxy is currently available in Debian unstable in the package
plasma-systray-legacy [2]. Probably it is too late to add this package into
official Ubuntu archive before Ubuntu Wily is released [3]. But users of
Ubuntu Vivid and Ubuntu Wily may install this package from a special PPA [4].
I hope it should simplify the migration from KDE 4 to KDE Plasma 5 for usual
users who don't know the difference between legacy system tray protocol (XEmbed)
and new StatusNotifierItem specification, but who might be disappointed when
some of programs will suddenly disappear from a "system tray" area after update
of their system.
If you have some issues with this program please report bugs at [5].
[1] http://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/xembed_back
[2] https://packages.debian.org/sid/plasma-systray-legacy
[3] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WilyWerewolf/ReleaseSchedule
[4] https://launchpad.net/~tehnick/+archive/ubuntu/xembed-sni-proxy
[5] https://github.com/davidedmundson/xembed-sni-proxy/issues
Best wishes,
Boris
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