> On Thu, 25 Apr 2019 18:37:22 +0200
> Uwe Brauer <oub@...> wrote:
> In other words, in whatever Ubuntu's default desktop is these days, starting
> the program places an icon in the system tray which provides right-click
> or drag-and-drop functionality that goes beyond starting the program, and
> which you find useful.
Right.
> I checked the developer's website ( mathpix.com ). The application appears
> to be closed-source. Snap ( snapcraft.io ) is a distro-hostile "universal" installer
> program that I wouldn't touch with a barge pole, and the developer's site does
> not offer the Linux version for download in any other format. Furthermore, the
> file it does offer is labeled as being for Ubuntu, which with people like these
> who probably don't know much about Linux means they only tested it on one
> version of the distro, and with all-default settings. They will not have tested TDE.
> They will probably not even have heard of TDE.
I contacted them and yes this is my impression too.
> My guess would be that this thing is calling something that's specific to the default
> Ubuntu desktop rather than following the XDG specification for system tray icons
> (yes, it seems there is one). At this point, I'd install a third desktop environment
> (possibly XFCE or Lumina) and see if it works as expected there. If it doesn't,
> complain to mathpix.com that their application doesn't follow standards and hasn't
> been properly tested. If it does, well, we've at least narrowed the problem down
> to "what do these DEs do that TDE doesn't?"
Good, idea. I installed XFCE and the same problems occur there. So it
seems that mathpix did something very specific for Ubuntu.
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