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Sorry if it appears that I disappeared. :) Thanks for replies various and observations, I had to take a break from Mepis 'ing for a while to deal with health issues.

Anyway, I removed the weather applet and reverted the tray to the 'as installed' state. The displacement is still there 'one step to the right' as it were.
As the tray loads the background moves relative to the bubble if updates are already available. I've tried both hiding the icon and not, and the result is the same.
The whole phenomenon is not a deal breaker of course but it would look better to my eyes if the alignment precision was there. I'll admit a little nostalgia for
the way the icon works in M8.0.

Would you be willing to try an experiment?

I think increasing the 1000 millisecond (1 second) delay at line 74 of the apt-notifier.py file:

might allow the "updates available" popup balloon message to align itself correctly.

Try editting line 74 of the /usr/bin/apt-notifier.py file (Alt+F2 kdesu kwrite /usr/bin/apt-notifier.py) and change the delay from 1000 to maybe 1500 or 2000.

{note: you should probably make a backup of the apt-notifier.py file first}

After you've editted the apt-notifier.py file and saved it, restart the apt-notifier from it's menu entry KMenu > Utilities >Apt-notifier (unhide/start) and then downgrade a package using dpkg to see if the increased delay has worked or not.