Bug#802675: libqt5widgets5: QSystemTrayicon doesn't work on Jessie with many desktop (MATE, Gnome, Cinnamon...)

[Eric Beuque <eric.beuque@gmail.com>]

Package: libqt5widgets5
Version: 5.1.1+dfsg-5
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

I open another ticket close to the fixed #775398 issue, where qt system tray icon is not working.

This bug seems to be fixed in the future release of Debian, but not in Jessie.

This is really blocking for production machine, where QT5 application cannot use tray icon.

Is it possible to patch the Qt version (5.3.2) with the fix? Or add in jessie backports a newer version of QT (the stretch version 5.4.3)?

If needed i can spend time to work on a patch for QT 5.3.2, but only if it can be included in Jessie.

Regards

Eric

Steps to reproduce:

# apt-get install task-mate-desktop
# apt-get install qtbase5-examples
... login to MATE desktop ...
$ /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/examples/widgets/desktop/systray/systray

No icon is displayed in the tray

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.11-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages libqt5widgets5 depends on:
ii  dpkg               1.16.12
ii  libc6              2.17-97
ii  libglib2.0-0       2.36.4-1
ii  libqt5core5        5.1.1+dfsg-5
ii  libqt5gui5         5.1.1+dfsg-5
ii  libstdc++6         4.8.2-1
ii  libx11-6           2:1.6.2-1
ii  multiarch-support  2.17-97

libqt5widgets5 recommends no packages.

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