On Thu, 15 Feb 2024 03:26:54 GMT, Alexander Zvegintsev <[email protected]> wrote:
>> A fair question. My understanding of how Gnome vs Gnome Shell vs GTK version >> naming interact here is definitely not as clear as I'd like but I understand >> anything that is Gnome 3.X or 40+ (and < 44.1) is affected, leaving only the >> even older systems out there as theoretically working. ie anything in at >> least the last 5-6 years is broken. I'd like Alexander to chime in here on >> this too. > >> Latest comment from Phil related to not disabling SystemTray for Gnome>=45 >> needs to be taken care. > > With the current version string format, this should not happen unless the > executable is somewhere else, environment variables are stripped, etc. > > However, since this is a quick fix, a more reliable way to do this will be > done along with [JDK-8325914](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8325914). > > >> Also do we need to worry about this issue being regression from some Gnome >> version like 3.38.0 and we need to disable SystemTray only between 3.38.0 & >> < 45 Or we are okay with disabling it for all version less than 45? > > The 3.38.0 was just an example of a different numbering convention, I can > reproduce the issue on the 3.28.3 on OL7.9. So the lower limit is not known > yet. So this is intentional, as an urgent fix. PS for context, one possibility strongly considered was to disable it EVERYWHERE, regardless of version. ------------- PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/17860#discussion_r1490326096
