Kopete tray icon freezes on subsequent incoming messages

[Ryan Farmer]

This has been going on since Natty and it's continuing into Oneiric. It is not a KDE bug since it works fine in other distributions.

When using the indicator widget, the envelope only tuns green for the first incoming message then it doesn't for following incoming messages, eventually the indicator thing just screws up and won't allow restoring Kopete anymore, necessitating a killall kopete.

IF you get sick of that and disable the indicator widget and go back to using a tray icon, then the tray icon animation works for the first incoming message, but on following incoming messages, it displays the frame for the incoming message animation it last displayed when you clicked on it to get the first message. It does not animate.

This might be multiple issues. I noticed that indicator widget is pretty badly broken in Oneiric anyway. I posted a bug about it not working with Konversation anymore, which got no replies. :)

[ealott (ealott)]

I've got the same issue in Kubuntu 11.10. I launch Kopete, it opens and signs in as it should, but if I close the buddy list window, I cannot reopen it from the message indicator.

Killing kopete (or opening up a new instance which mysteriously does not have any data - no accounts, no contacts, nothing - then "quitting" it), then reopening it restores it to normal functioning...at least until the budy list window is closed again.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[ealott (ealott)]

I just found the following thread and tried its advice: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1616922

Setting the option to "Show system tray icon" in 'Settings > Configure > Behavior > System Tray' solves this issue for me. I can now close all Kopete windows and then reopen them from the message indicator, even if new unread messages have been received while the windows were closed.

Hope this helps.