[Pkg-lxde-maintainers] Bug#639729: /usr/bin/uim-toolbar-gtk-systray: tray icons squashed

[Michal Suchanek]

Excerpts from d+deb at vdr.jp's message of Tue Aug 30 03:53:52 +0200 2011:
> reassgin 639729 lxpanel
> retitle 639729 lxpanel: multitude icons squashed into one icon place of systray
> clone 639729 -1
> reassgin -1 fbpanel
> retitle -1 fbpanel: multitude icons squashed into one icon place of systray
> thanks
> 
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 08:28:20PM +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> > I tried lxpanel and fbpanel and in both the multitude of uim icons is
> > squashed into the place of one icon resulting in the icons being about
> > 2px wide each.
> > 
> > Either these panels both fail at something or uim needs to register each
> > button as a separate tray icon to work properly.
> > 
> > Tried installing a more traditional gnome-panel but it crashes on start
> > so I can't tell how it displays uim.
> 
> it is not uim's bug but lxpanel and fbpanel's bug (or limitation).
> please see below bug reports.
> 
> icewm: systray icon not allocated enough space
> http://bugs.debian.org/400880
> 
> xfce4-panel: systray icon not allocated enough space
> http://bugs.debian.org/528368

Looking at the Xfce panel code suggests that the panel tries to guess
the number of icons from the tray applet width/height ratio.

This would suggest that the tray applet is fixed and cannot be displayed
in a vertical panel. Indeed, setting the panel to vertical does not show
the uim icons.