Bug#793675: hplip-gui: No system tray detected
This affects a number of operating system packages of hplip.
See this upstream bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/hplip/+bug/1714659
Concerning the idea of forcing a dependency on sni-qt, it looks like
this package does not exist (anymore?).
Concerning the need to add a "sleep" before starting hp-systray, this is
not useful anymore as the program now does this sleep (for up to 60
seconds), waiting for a system tray to be available.
About the idea of installing gnome-shell-extension-top-icons-plus, I can
confirm that it does not solve the issue for my GNOME environment.
To summarize, hplip provides several tools, among which there is
hp-systray which handles a system tray functionality. However, system
trays are now replaced with "Notifications" in GNOME, and the system
tray functionality is simply absent nowadays in GNOME. The message from
GNOME is that applications should stop relying on this (old) way of
doing things. I'm not sure what functionality the hp-systray provides,
but if it makes sense the hplip team would have to create a new tool
based on "Notifications" that would provide the same functionality.
I doubt we can remove hp-systray; it may be useful for users of desktop
environments other than GNOME that still have a system tray.
To fix this issue which, as far as I know, only hit GNOME users, I
suggest to add this line to /etc/xdg/autostart/hplip-systray.desktop:
NotShowIn=GNOME;
So that the issue stops annoying GNOME users.
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Fabrice Bauzac-Stehly
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