message indicator doesn't move from panel to systray on upgrade

[Jonathan Riddell]

Binary package hint: kubuntu-default-settings

Upgrading from karmic the message indictor doesn't move from the panel to the systray. This is probably a bug in the upgrade script in kubuntu-default-settings

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

This issue cannot be resolved in kubuntu-default-settings. It is impossible to access the plugin type of a plasmoid from within the scripting interface if the plasmoid itself is not available anymore. So, our update script runs across the plasmoid but will find an empty type, making it impossible to determine the former type of that widget (FTR there are also no other means to access this information from within the scripting interface).

Thus I recommend that the plasma-widget-message-indicator gets a kconf_update file that changes the plugin name in plasma's applets config to the new name. The update script will then find the plugin once plasma gets restarted and can move it to the systray, as well as traverse all the configurations there.

[Aurélien Gâteau (agateau)]

OK, will have a look at creating a kconf_update script.

[Aurélien Gâteau (agateau)]

Version 0.5.3 comes with a kconf_update script but... it needs a newer kconf_update, because kconf_update does not support nested groups. Patch has been sent upstream.

[Aurélien Gâteau (agateau)]

The kconf_update was not a really good idea because it depended on a new kconf_update binary. Version 0.5.4 (released today) provides a transitional plasma-widget-indicatordisplay.desktop file to ease the transition, as suggested by Harald.