mail-client/sylpheed-2.3.0 displays an empty tray icon in the system tray, even when option "Display tray icon" is _not_ selected under Configuration/Common Preferences/Details (== "show_trayicon=0" in sylpheedrc) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. make sure you've opted to _not_ display the tray icon 2. run sylpheed 3. watch an empty tray icon appear Actual Results: An unwanted, empty tray icon appears Expected Results: No tray icon should appear These two patches fix it for me: -----8<----- --- ../../sylpheed-2.3.0/src/mainwindow.c 2007-02-25 20:42:43.000000000 +0100 +++ mainwindow.c 2007-02-26 17:56:33.000000000 +0100 @@ -979,7 +979,10 @@ gtk_widget_show_all(statusbar); - tray_icon = trayicon_create(mainwin); + if (prefs_common.show_trayicon) + tray_icon = trayicon_create(mainwin); + else + tray_icon = NULL; if (tray_icon && prefs_common.show_trayicon) trayicon_show(tray_icon); -----8<----- --- ../../sylpheed-2.3.0/src/trayicon.c 2007-02-25 21:02:51.000000000 +0100 +++ trayicon.c 2007-02-26 17:56:36.000000000 +0100 @@ -183,8 +183,10 @@ void trayicon_destroy(TrayIcon *tray_icon) { - g_object_unref(tray_icon->status_icon); - tray_icon->status_icon = NULL; + if (tray_icon) { + g_object_unref(tray_icon->status_icon); + tray_icon->status_icon = NULL; + } } void trayicon_set_tooltip(const gchar *text) -----8<----- I have only tested this with GTK 2.10.6 (x11-libs/gtk+-2.10.6, stable), and not with GTK versions < 2.10. The patches also apply cleanly to version 2.3.1 (~x86) which shows the same behavior (ie. unwanted tray icon).
2.3.x are removed. If you have same behavior with 2.4.x, please submit new bug for it.
