[karmic] KDE Plasma system tray is empty since 4.3 beta update

[Sjors Gielen]

Binary package hint: plasma-widgets-workspace

Since Karmic updated to KDE 4.3, my systray does not show any icons. It does get larger when I open a new application, which means it makes space for the icon, but the icon itself is never added. Clicking or right clicking in the space where icons should be, does nothing or opens the menu containing for example "system tray settings", i.e. is equivalent to clicking/right clicking in empty space when the systray would still have icons.

$ kde4-config --version
Qt: 4.5.1
KDE: 4.2.85 (KDE 4.2.85 (KDE 4.3 Beta1))
kde4-config: 1.0

[3vi1 (launchpad-net-eternaldusk)]

I have the same problem (and more) as of yesterday. I had assumed that maybe all of the KDE4.3b1 packages hadn't been uploaded yet and that my issues were caused by version mismatches. But, I have the same problem today, at the point where they're uploading a lot of new apps that are dependent on .85.

[3vi1 (launchpad-net-eternaldusk)]

BTW - I worked around my issue by backleveling the kdelibs-bin package yesterday. Today, after things were still way-broken, I had to backlevel a lot of other packages (libplasma3, kdelibs5, kdelibs5-data...) too.

http://www.eternaldusk.com/images/screenshots/kde-fubard.png

[Roderick B. Greening (roderick-greening)]

KDE 4.3 beta 1 isn't completely built or uploaded yet. kdebase-workspace, kdebindings and kdepim for example are not yet packaged or uploaded.

Try again tomorrow or the next day, and see how things are.

[Sjors Gielen (sgielen)]

Yep. When using kdebase-workspace version 4.2.85-0ubuntu2 and kdebase version 4.2.85-0ubuntu1, this problem (and all others) are fixed. However, these versions are not in the repositories yet (check launchpad), so setting status to Fix Committed.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

It should be all built now. :)