As promised, here's the patch I've created to work around this problem. What it does is that whenever the number of unread messages is reduced to 0, the icon will be destroyed and recreated. This newly created icon is hidden by default.
** Changed in: mail-notification (Fedora) Status: New => Confirmed ** Patch added: "Proposed workaround" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mail-notification/+bug/330351/+attachment/1677509/+files/mail-notification-5.4-fix-tray-icon-freeze-on-kde.patch -- mail-notification widget hangs in KDE4 taskbar https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330351 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs