twinkle no longer appears in KDE system tray

I'm having a very similar problem on kubuntu karmic amd64 updated as of today (3/oct/2009).
Most of the times (not always) the twinkle icon (which should appear in the system tray) appears on the desktop.
It behaves exactly as if it would be in the system tray: clicking on it open the main window and right clicking open the "service" menu.
I can't understand, yet, why it does not do it always.
It looks like if some other applications are running at the time I start twinkle, it goes in the system tray.
Until now, anyway, I haven't been able to understand which application(s) make it work properly.

I'm experiencing the same problem with kubuntu karmic amd64 final after updating from jaunty. The tray icon always appears on the desktop (top left corner) instead of the system tray area. It used to work nicely with previous kubuntu releases. Accessing kaddressbook data for dialing does also not work any longer, so maybe KDE support in twinkle is missing/broken?

not just happening in KDE, in gnome as well. sometimes it just disappears from system tray and never returns so having no way to bring back the application have to kill the application eventually

Also still experiencing this one having done a clean upgrade to Karmic.

Vik :v)

I had the same issue here. After i uncheck all stuff in the settings for display the tray, open twinkle and close twinkle twice and enable this settings again and open twinkle again the icon appears on the right bottom tray as it should. Perhaps this works for you.

same with a fresh install of Karmic. Sometimes it work sometimes no.

Plus 1 for fresh install of Karmic on gnome. I'm also using Nvidia TwinVeiw and the icon is at the top left of the second monitor. I have twinkle automatically starting from 'system'->'preferences'->"startup applications' If I right click and quit and start again it goes in the right place. I can't seem to duplicate this after being logged in. I made a script that sleeps for 10 and then runs twinkle.. it is a workaround for me.. adding 'sleep 10&&twinkle in the startup applications didn't work. so I made this.
to use:
sudo mv sleeptwinkle /usr/local/bin/
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/sleeptwinkle

'system'->'preferences'->"startup applications' change twinkle to sleeptwinkle

You can play with the timing to get it working for your system.
sudo gedit /usr/local/bin/sleeptwinkle

You can play with the timeing to get it working for your system.

or ignore all that and try unchecking 'create system tray icon on startup' this is found edit'->'system settings'->'general' :-D

Small temp. workaround:
1. disable system tray icon in twinkle
2. use Alltray utility to hide twinkle to system tray.

3. setup visual notification for incoming call.
   3a. create script file
     cat ~/.twinkle/scripts/incom_call.sh
     #!/bin/bash
     kdialog --title "Twinkle" --passivepopup "${SIP_FROM_USER} is calling..." &

  3b. assign script for "Incoming call" in Edit -> User profile -> Scripts

The sleeptwinkle workaround worked for me, although I had a heck of a time getting changes in "startup applications" to actually stick. That's probably a different bug.

Thanks for the help!

I had the same problems:
1) icon to systry problem,
2) call message not showing,
3) KAddresBook not showing,
...

Then I manually installed 1.4.1 version and all is good (so far :).

This nasty bug still persists in Ubuntu/lucid (LTS).

This bug I also have. AMD 64 Kubuntu 9.10.
Another odd behavior I've seen is when it loads the window opens, becomes invisible except for a fairly transparent frame that gets "stuck to" an existing open window of another application. This may be a plasma thing I don't know. I have to manually kill twinkle and reload it to hopefully get it back to normal.

Confirmed on Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS (lucid). Looks like that it create tray before indicator applet started. Delay on startup helps

Have the same problem om Ubuntu 11.11 (KDE)
I even have two desktop icons. One top left and one somewhat lower. They close and start together and both work.
Twinkle 1.4.2

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

One more here... Kubuntu 11.10 x86_64.

Confirmed in Ubuntu 12.04.

Twinkle has been removed from the archives since it is unmaintained and depends on Qt3. As such, no further improvements or bugfixes will be made to this software.