Systray not shown in KDE 4.4.2

[Germar]

After upgrading to KDE 4.4.2, BiT no longer shows the tray icon when performing a backup. The log doesn't even show the line "[kde4systray] begin loop". Backups seem to work fine otherwise.

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BiT version: 0.9.99.32~karmic (from testing PPA)
Kernel: Linux ikutux 2.6.31-20-generic #58-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 12 04:38:19 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux
python version: 2.6.4-0ubuntu1
python-kde4 version: 4:4.4.2-0ubuntu1~karmic1~ppa1

Upgrated from the Kubuntu backports PPA.

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kde4systrayicon.py works when launched from the command line. On the other hand, kde4plugin.py (and the rest of the files in /plugins) shows this:

lysias@ikutux /usr/share/backintime/plugins $ python kde4plugin.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "kde4plugin.py", line 21, in <module>
    import pluginmanager
ImportError: No module named pluginmanager

If I ventured a guess, something relevant has maybe been changed in python-kde4 which makes BiT not to work anymore.

I'm using Linux Mint 8 KDE 64-bit version. I also tested this bug in Virtualbox where I installed the aforementioned Mint, tested that BiT works ok, upgraded to KDE 4.4.2 and noticed that BiT systray no longer shows up.

Ps: I've been a long time user of BiT. It's a great program, so thanks for developing it. Though I haven't yet had to resort to backups made by BiT knock knock, it's good to have them around in case something goes awry :)

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Imported from Launchpad using lp2gh.

• date created: 2010-04-15T22:06:43Z
• owner: lysias
• the launchpad url was https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/564246

[Germar]

(by taras8055)
Same problem in Kubuntu (9.10) with KDE 4.4.2 from PPA

[Germar]

(by danleweb)
BIT is written in python, so the version of python-kde4 module must be compatible with kde4 libraries. Maybe the libraries from PPA are no longer compatible with python-kde4.