the applets are not stopped correctly

Bug #195915 reported by Orr Dvory
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
GNOME Panel
Fix Released
Medium
gnome-panel (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-panel

Remove the notification area applet from a panel and adding it back causes all the icons disappear.

Also, no new icons ever appear in the applet after re-adding it. The applet just dies.

Restarting gnome-panel (killall gnome-panel) causes the applet to come back to life.

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Basilio Kublik (sourcercito) wrote :

Hi there
Could you please try to explain a little more, which icons disappear?, the ones from the panel or the desktop ones, maybe you can provide an screenshot and attach it to the report, does this happens after the upgrade yesterday?, could you please restart your session and/or your machine and then try to reproduce this issue with your account and a new one just in case.

Thanks in advance
Thanks in advance

Changed in gnome-panel:
assignee: nobody → sourcercito
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Incomplete
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Orr Dvory (gnudles) wrote :

the notification icons don't appear...all I see is the line of the applet itself (that represent the applet)... I think it wasn't before, but I can't tell you in what upgrade it happened... after I restarted my computer, everything turned OK... you can try it by yourself (remove the applet and then add it...), and then restart your computer....

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Orr Dvory (gnudles) wrote :

let me rephrase it:
if I remove the notification area from the panel and then add a new one, the new one is empty... without any icon...
if I restart my computer, the area gets filled...

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sonmez (sonmezsahut) wrote :

I am having a similar problem, I think.
I installed wine long time ago but then uninstalled it. I noticed that the icon is still
there but when I click on it, it doesn't do anything. So I removed the icon manually by going into the main menu and deleting it. Now I reinstalled wine but the icon doesn't appear. This also happened with other icons. If i remove the icons manually even after reinstalling the program I cannot get the icon back unless I create a new one manually
of course. This happened in gutsy and now I am running Hardy and still the same problem.

Thanks

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Alexander Jones (alex-weej) wrote :

Sonmez your bug is completely unrelated, please file a new report.

I am also experiencing this original bug.

description: updated
description: updated
Changed in gnome-panel:
assignee: sourcercito → nobody
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

The bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=525354

Changed in gnome-panel:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
milestone: none → ubuntu-8.04
status: Confirmed → Triaged
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Kamil Páral (kamil.paral) wrote :

The upstream bug has been fixed. The remote tracker seems to be somehow stuck. I think this can be marked as solved.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

the bug will be closed when the new version is uploaded next week rather

Changed in gnome-panel:
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-panel - 1:2.22.1-0ubuntu1

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gnome-panel (1:2.22.1-0ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low

  * New upstream version:
    Panel
    - Convert username/login to UTF-8 in logout dialog
    - Fix applet processes not quitting when the applet is removed (lp: #195915)
    Misc
    - Remove old and useless files
    - Require gweather 2.22.1
    - Don't explicitly require libxml for the weather applet anymore
    Clock Applet
    - Fix crash when there are no locations available
    - Fix locations not appearing in the preferences dialog
    - Make find location window larger
    - Handle escape to close the dialog in the time/timezone dialogs
    - Fix various issues with adding/removing locations
    - Fix crash when PolicyKit helper can't be called (lp: #208791)
    - Fix crash when closing the calendar popup when a city is blinking
      on the map (lp: #200881, ##207954)
    - Improve the blinking on the map when clicking on various locations
    - Cleanups
    - Correctly redraw the map outline on expose events
    - Fix crash when the location doesn't have coordinates (lp: #201102)
    - Fix crash when updating locations while calendar popup is not shown
      (lp: #210470)
    - Fix initial visibility of the appointments to actually follow the
      state of the expander (lp: #206118)
    - Make sure we always use data from the right country (lp: #185190)
    - Show caldav appointments in the calendar
    - Ignore dbus errors when setting the time and there's no reply on the bus
      (lp: #207890)
    - Open evolution on the right day, in all timezones (lp: #66028)
    - Fix crash when an evolution-data-server dies (lp: #122590)
    - Correctly set time, even when DST is on (lp: #208598)
    - Handle multiple locations in the same timezone in a better way
    - Fix weather tooltip to show the real temperature and the apparent
      temperature, instead of only the apparent one (lp: #188183)
    - Do not lose the weather location information when changing the
      timezone of a location (lp: #200911)
    - Don't show weather information of the last location once it has been
      removed
    - Remove empty space on the left of the clock when there's no location
      (lp: #203691)
    - Potential fix for another crash in the calendar code
    - When adding a location, make it the current one if it makes sense
  * debian/control.in:
    - updated libgweather requirement
  * debian/patches/17_expose_wm_keybindings.patch:
    - dropped, the current version has some issues and need to be rework
      during next cycle (lp: #211112)
  * debian/patches/80_from_bugzilla_use_correct_current_timezone.patch:
    - dropped, fixed in the new version

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Tue, 08 Apr 2008 01:47:12 +0200

Changed in gnome-panel:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Changed in gnome-panel:
status: Unknown → Fix Released
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rsgl (skyelewin) wrote :

Hmm...

I'm still having a problem related to this. Ubuntu 8.04, on two different computers, one is PPC & the other is i386. I have the gnome-panel (1:2.22.1-0ubuntu1) installed that supposedly fixed the issue. See bug #211604

My trash icon has disappeared on both machines. It disappeared first on the PPC machine, and then a few days later on the i386 machine.

All the other applets appear and work fine on both computers. I can even add other applets, just not the trash. Perhaps there is a specific situation that still triggers this behavior, but I haven't been able to track it down if so...

Restarting does not make the trash icon reappear!

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Koto (kkotowicz) wrote :

It is possible that the trash icon is somehow not displaying - someone reported in in forums:
 http://www.uluga.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=752092&page=1

and I am also experiencing this - no trash applet is visible, adding it to the panel doesn't help, restarting GNOME (ctrl-alt-bksp, alt-print screen-k) also doesn't help, but right clicking a tiny area where the applet should possibly reside displays the trash applet menu: (ver 2.22.1)

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

could people stop commenting on a closed bug? the issue you are having is a different one, this bug has been fixed already in hardy, you might have bug #49594 though

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rsgl (skyelewin) wrote :

Sorry... Should we open a new bug report? This issue is still happening... More specifically, it's Bug #211604, which refers to this bug. Both report that the issue is fixed, but... I'm still having issues with the trash icon being invisible. On the two different computers that I previously mentioned, the trash icon has disappeared and I have not been able to bring it back. It is there, but as other people are reporting, it's a very thin (probably 1 pixel) wide strip and the icon itself is invisible.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

did you read the comment before posting this new one?

Changed in gnome-panel:
importance: Unknown → Medium
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