After upgrading to plasma-active two I seem to have a weird problem where two instance of the system tray, well, the entire top bar with the tray, window list strip, and applications, started on top of each other. I'm pretty sure that's what's happening at least: the bar is completely opaque with compositing on where it used to be semi-transparent, and I can sometimes see vague shadows icons in the systray as if the icon was behind the current systray, especially during startup when the tray is being populated. Also, some applets like the battery applet is no longer on the tray, but I catch a glimpse of it during startup before it vanishes, as if covered by the second instance of the systray.

Any advice on what I can do? removing/editting the plasma device configs don't seem to help. Oh, I upgraded from plasma-active one on opensuse 11.4 to plasma-active two on opensuse 12.1, basically upgraded to 12.1, then upgraded to plasma-active two per instructions.

Can you add a screenshot of the problem?

You can try moving the file ~/.kde/share/config/plasma-device-appletsrc to /tmp and restarting the device.

The battery plasmoid will disappear if the battery is fully charged. That is one of the changes between PA 1 and PA 2.

lamarque wrote:Can you add a screenshot of the problem?

Here's an example where the "shadow" of an applet can be seen, as if behind the current panel: http://i.imgur.com/KAq6o.png

Notice also that there is no notifications applet, not even the i-in-a-circle you normally see when there's no notification, and yet the notifications and battery applets can be briefly seen during startup: http://i.imgur.com/JZ8Er.png

That weird icon is the networkmanager plasmoid btw. I seem to recall seeing that icon used when I have multiple instances of it running, which seems to enhance my suspicion that I have two systray/top panel running on top of each other.

Another weird thing I noticed is on the open windows strip, when I swipe the windows around there is a vague semi-visible "trail" (see here: http://i.imgur.com/9fDqi.png ) as if there is another window strip running behind it that isn't rendering properly.

You can try moving the file ~/.kde/share/config/plasma-device-appletsrc to /tmp and restarting the device.

Tried I also tried creating a new user and logging in to that, same problem. Reinstalling the packages don't seem to help either. Could it be some sort of leftover stuff from plasma active one? Are there any components that were in active one but not in active two, or components that are installed to different locations? I'm thinking maybe the package manager didn't properly cleanup active one.

The battery plasmoid will disappear if the battery is fully charged. That is one of the changes between PA 1 and PA 2.

Yeah I'm aware of that, but the battery plasmoid doesn't show up when it's discharging, even when the battery level changes. When the battery goes low I get a "battery level is low" warning notification, but still no plasmoid on the systray. If I plug in the power though, the plasmoid appears, probably because that causes it to refresh or repaint or something. Once it appears it stays - until the next boot.

There seems to be only graphical artifacts in the screenshots. I have noticed them sometimes in my MeeGo image running in VirtualBox.

The notification icon only appears when there is something to show, like the battery icon that hides itself when the battery is fully charged.

My MeeGo image does not come with Plasma NM. Can you check if the file /usr/share/kde4/apps/desktoptheme/air-mobile/icons/network.svgz exists? That file contains the wifi and ethernet icons used by Plasma NM.

I do not have a real tablet here to test the battery problem and VirtualBox does not emulate a battery. I will have to ask other developers to take a look at the battery icon problem.

I have these faint artifacts too in the Balsam image of PA2. They seem to be from applications that are recently closed.

Okay I installed everything from absolute scratch (including opensuse 12.1 itself, basically nuked the partition and reinstalled from liveusb), and the problem is still around, so it's probably not a config issue. The battery still won't show up when I need it Do users of the other (meego etc) images have a similar issue? I wonder if there's something I can do to force the battery plasmoid to always be present on the tray....

Edit: network.svgz isn't there, I tried copying network.svgz from default into air-mobile, no dice. Network icon still missing Feels like the opensuse openslx repos aren't properly set up. Are the other options any better?

There is also a bug report on the missing network icon.

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=289069

Hi,
I'm using Plasma Active2 on a WeTab 3G and it works for me (battery indicator appear when the battery isn't full charged and the network applet is there). I have the shadows issue but it's not a big problem.

I'm using the stable meego image from basysKom. The only problem is that I miss many applications in the repositories. Sometimes I use the tablet with a mouse and keyboard and I want non Active applications