[Pkg-hpijs-devel] Bug#490212: hplip: wrong placing of hp-systray icons on kde4

[Eric Valette]

Bruce Sass wrote:
> On Thu July 10 2008 01:05:00 pm Eric Valette wrote:
>> Fo some reasons, this systray applet  is wrongly located when other
>> are still at they normal place (Krandrtray, kmix, korganizer, ...)
>>
>> So I do not konw if the bug is in the hplip python code or kde code
>> but it is annoying.
> 
> Try stopping any existing applet and running:
> $ hp-systray --qt4

It works! Thanks.
> 
> Does that fix the problem?
> If so, it looks like the best way to fix your problem is to change:
> 
> "force_qt4 = False" to "force_qt4 = True"
> at line 63 of /usr/share/hplip/systray.py...
> 
> ...then keep doing so every upgrade until HPLIP is built against PyQT4.

> If this was more than a minor problem I would suggest building HPLIP 
> against PyQT4, patching the systray.py code, and placing the result in 
> Experimental where it can be fetched by anyone trying out KDE4.

I consider it minr becase hlpip works, and the icon while located at the
left upper side of the screen is functionnal. Can live with that up to
until kde4 becomes default I hope somewhere at the end of this year...

Thanks for your time and support

-- eric