Status icon in notification area not required when using FUSA applet and Messaging Menu

Bug #290471 reported by Lionel Dricot
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This bug affects 13 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Ayatana Ubuntu
Fix Released
Undecided
Unassigned
Empathy
Expired
Medium
empathy (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Robert Ancell

Bug Description

Like the name say, the notification area should be used for notification only : to give an information to the user until a given amount of time or until a given action.

When I receive a new message, I expect to have a icon in the notification area but when there is not, I don't want to see any icon.

If I really want to see my status permanently, I can use the FUSA applet.

More : if I already use the FUSA applet, I see my status twice, which is quite bad...

Changed in empathy:
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in empathy:
status: Unknown → Invalid
Changed in empathy:
status: Invalid → Unknown
Changed in empathy:
status: Unknown → New
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Juha Siltala (topyli) wrote :

Instead of displaying the persistent icon in the notification area, add support for the new indicator-applet.

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jaduncan (jaduncan) wrote :

I would agree that a custom Ubuntu patch to do this would be good.

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jaduncan (jaduncan) wrote :

Addendum to my first comment: where "do this"=="correctly use the new indicator-applet".

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Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) wrote :

Note that the upstream issue is if the icon is removed then Empathy must quit when closed which is a change from the current behaviour.

Changed in empathy (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: Confirmed → Triaged
summary: - Empathy should not display an icon in the notification are if there is
- no message
+ Status icon in notification area not required when using FUSA applet
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chrisbuchholz (chrisbuchholz) wrote : Re: Status icon in notification area not required when using FUSA applet

@Robert Ancell,

not neccessarily - like in pidgin, when pressing the close butten, it disappears to the indicator-applet sub-icon. If you press the icon, it reappears. If you want to close pidgin, you press ctrl+q or go to the menubar and do it from there.
Super easy, and the best solution currently, I think, when using the indicator-applet.

Changed in empathy:
status: New → Confirmed
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Rick Spencer (rick-rickspencer3) wrote :

Now that empathy lives as a launcher in the Messaging Menu,it should not also have it's own status icon

Changed in empathy (Ubuntu):
importance: Wishlist → High
assignee: nobody → Canonical Desktop Team (canonical-desktop-team)
summary: - Status icon in notification area not required when using FUSA applet
+ Status icon in notification area not required when using FUSA applet and
+ Messaging Menu
Changed in empathy (Ubuntu):
milestone: none → ubuntu-9.10-beta
Changed in indicator-messages:
milestone: none → ubuntu-9.10-beta-freeze
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Rick Spencer (rick-rickspencer3) wrote :

Added to Messaging Menu project so this can be tracked along with ayatana milestonts

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Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) wrote :

This is fixed in the patch in bug 340180

Ted Gould (ted)
affects: indicator-messages → ayatana-ubuntu
Changed in ayatana-ubuntu:
milestone: ubuntu-9.10-beta-freeze → none
milestone: none → ubuntu-9.04-beta-freeze
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Bernhard (b.a.koenig) wrote :

Did you guys notice that there is a useless black bar in the notification area sometimes when I open empathy? Screenshot attached, the black bar usually vanishes after a while, still wanted to mention it.

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Bernhard (b.a.koenig) wrote :

I filed the black bar issue seperately as bug 434316, feel free to mark as duplicate if you want.

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ktulu77 (ktulu-highwaytoacdc) wrote :

Empathy is not in the notification area anymore with the latest updates, it is just in the message indicator.

But there is still a strange behavior :

When I click on the close button, Empathy does not close, it is still in the message indicator and running in background.
But if I close evolution, evolution close and does not run in background.

The applications should have the same behavior. (I think the good one is the one when you click on the close button of an application, the application close and does not stay in background.)

Thank you

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Bernhard (b.a.koenig) wrote :

Yes, sorry my mistake. The black bar from bug 434316 shows up when I open empathy but it's probly a bug in the notifier package.

David Barth (dbarth)
Changed in empathy (Ubuntu):
milestone: ubuntu-9.10-beta → ubuntu-9.10
Changed in ayatana-ubuntu:
milestone: ubuntu-9.10-beta-freeze → ubuntu-9.10
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Rick Spencer (rick-rickspencer3) wrote :

Robert,

What is the status of this bug task? It appears from the comments that it should be closed. If it's done, please mark it as so, otherwise, please comment on what is remaining. Thanks.

Changed in empathy (Ubuntu):
assignee: Canonical Desktop Team (canonical-desktop-team) → Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)
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Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) wrote :

This was fixed in empathy 2.27.92-1ubuntu3 (see bug 340180). Please open new bugs for any problems with this version or later.

Changed in empathy (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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David Barth (dbarth) wrote :

Fix released in Ubuntu, so closing for the Ayatana-Ubuntu integration, while the upstream bug is still left open.

Changed in ayatana-ubuntu:
status: New → Fix Released
Changed in empathy:
importance: Unknown → Medium
Changed in empathy:
status: Confirmed → Expired
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