Thunderbird message count no longer showing in Plasma 5

[protist]

I've read through the existing issues, and I can't find this specific issue. Apologies if I missed it.

I've upgraded to Plasma 5, and FireTray shows in the tray after installing libappindicator-gtk2 and libappindicator-gtk3. However, the message count is no longer showing.

I checked my FireTray preferences, and verified that Mail > Enable mail notification was checked. Oddly enough, when I looked initially, both radio buttons under Mail notification type were unchecked. I clicked one, but now I (obviously) cannot select no radio buttons.

Initially (with none selected), I had a Thunderbird icon in the tray at all times. Now, with the first selected, I have a Thunderbird icon when there is no new mail, and a "letter" icon when there is.

FireTray 0.5.6 59320d5 (from here)
Thunderbird 31.6.0
Arch Linux

[dannyauble]

I have the same issue as well. Is there a way to get the message count back?

[foudfou]

Hi guys, this is a limitation of libappindicator.
Closing as duplicate of #143.

[dannyauble]

Thanks for the update foudfou, is there any other option for plasma 5? Is there a way to make it work as I can in plasma 4 (with_appindicator = false setting it in plasma 5 makes it so firetray doesn't show up at all)? Sorry for such a noob question. I appreciate all you have done!

[foudfou]

I'm afraid there is no option for now ...and as long as nobody has time to work on #143.

[protist]

Oops, sorry for the noise. I'm not sure how I missed the duplicate issue.