Support for legacy (xembed) systray icons has been restored in Plasma workspace 5.5:
http://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/xembed_back "In retrospect, I think we underestimated the fallout this would cause. [...] There's nothing wrong with changing our minds in response to user feedback." Kubuntu 16.04 LTS is going to ship with Plasma 5.5 or newer, so this issue should be resolved then. Backports to earlier releases are unlikely, from what I've read. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1448512 Title: REGRESSION: No system tray icon in KDE Plasma 5 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tasque/+bug/1448512/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs