systray tooltips broken, showing only 'VMapp command'

[adrelanos]

Qubes OS version (e.g., R3.1):

R3.2 with testing repository

Affected TemplateVMs (e.g., fedora-23, if applicable):

debian-8

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Expected behavior:

When hovering over a systray icon, the tooltip should show whatever the tooltip actually is (just like any operating system).

Actual behavior:

When hovering over a systray icon, the tooltip only says VMapp command.

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

Start a Debian 8 based VM.

sudo apt-get install klipper

Then start from command line, run klipper.

Also happens in sys-whonix with sdwdate-gui.

General notes:

Did not notice this before R3.2. (Does not mean, it did not happen there.)

[adrelanos]

Issue persists after reboot.

[adrelanos]

Issue persists after reboot.

[andrewdavidwong]

Other systray icon issues (possibly related?): #2216, #2242, #2268

[andrewdavidwong]

Other systray icon issues (possibly related?): #2216, #2242, #2268

[marmarek]

This is a "feature" of new KDE - the icon there is no longer what
application places there, but a copy of that window. And a tooltip is a
title of that window, which is unset in most cases ("VMapp command" is
qubes-specific placeholder for unset window title). This KDE behaviour
is totally non-standard.

Just one another reason why we've chosen to move away from KDE being
default environment.

Best Regards,
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
Invisible Things Lab
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

[marmarek]

This is a "feature" of new KDE - the icon there is no longer what
application places there, but a copy of that window. And a tooltip is a
title of that window, which is unset in most cases ("VMapp command" is
qubes-specific placeholder for unset window title). This KDE behaviour
is totally non-standard.

Just one another reason why we've chosen to move away from KDE being
default environment.

Best Regards,
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
Invisible Things Lab
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

[tasket]

This is good from a security standpoint, but the vm name should be added to the real tooltip instead of the former replacing the latter.

[tasket]

This is good from a security standpoint, but the vm name should be added to the real tooltip instead of the former replacing the latter.

[Zrubi]

This issues is not template specific. I have this issue using fedora based templates as well.
It is related only the to the new KDE 5 System Tray

[Zrubi]

This issues is not template specific. I have this issue using fedora based templates as well.
It is related only the to the new KDE 5 System Tray

[unman]

@andrewdavidwong Can you remove the Debian and Whonix labels, and the xfce4 one too? I guess we need a kde5 label to cover this one.

[unman]

@andrewdavidwong Can you remove the Debian and Whonix labels, and the xfce4 one too? I guess we need a kde5 label to cover this one.