4.16: Two different statustray plugins

buhtz · 2021-09-11 13:35:09

I upgraded my Debian 10 (Buster) to Debian 11 (Bullseye).

Now I can see two different statustray plugins available in for the panel. But I am not sure which one it referes to on the xfce website or the debian package tracker. I only have the German names on the panels objects list.
They are called:

- "Status Tray-Erweiterung" (this must be the "old" one that was available in Debian 10, also)
- "Modul zur Statusbenachrichtigung" (this is new for me and maybe was introducied in a younger version of XFCE?)

Is one of them deprecated maybe?

ToZ · 2021-09-11 16:37:47

The Status Tray plugin is the new plugin as of 4.15. It combines the older Notification Area and Status Notifier plugins into one. I guess that during the upgrade, debian didn't remove the older, deprecated plugin.

buhtz · 2021-09-11 18:25:07

Thanks for that info.

Can you give me something like a full identifier (name, binary name, gitlab url, debian package name, etc) for both items?

I would open a debian ticket if I am sure about the package/binary name.

ToZ · 2021-09-11 19:11:16

The Status Tray plugin is part of xfce4-panel now (replaces the notification area - systray). I'm not sure how debian packages the older one - looks like there are two possible packages (xfce4-statusnotifier-plugin and/or xfce4-sntray-plugin). Do have either of those packages installed?

For reference of deprecation, see: https://docs.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfc … ugin/start.

buhtz · 2021-10-14 09:28:51

What is about this one?

https://docs.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfc … ugin/start

CwF · 2021-10-14 15:15:03

buhtz wrote:

What is about this one?
https://docs.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfc … ugin/start

Bingo
The details are confusing! For Bullseye the newer "Status Tray Plugin" noted as (external) by Panel Preferences I think is provided by the deb 'xfce4-indicator-plugin' I believe this replaces the earlier 'Notification Area' that I thought was an internal and not a separate deb.

buhtz · 2021-10-14 20:08:22

Again I am confused.

I planed to open a bug report on debian about a deprecated package. But I can not report without understanding the details. wink If you want to...

ToZ · 2021-10-14 20:53:40

I'm not sure how debian packages stuff. As far as I understand it, historically it went like this:

- Notification Area - to support system tray applications - existed in pre-4.16
- Indicator Plugin - to support Ubuntu's MessagingMenu spec
- xfce4-statusnotifier-plugin - better support for app indicators
- Status Tray plugin - the new "notification area" that supports both system tray and status notifiers - this is whats available in 4.16 and should be (?) all that you need.

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4.16: Two different statustray plugins

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