Panel 0 xfce4-indicator-plugin misbehavior in Trusty
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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xfce4-indicator-plugin (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Sean Davis |
Bug Description
This is a minor annoyance in my opinion. Please don't classify this as "High".
Original gross symptoms:
* Indicator plug-in is missing the Sound Menu and Power Mgmt indicators.
* The "Hidden" check boxes were confusing because clicking (set or reset) didn't always produce visible changes (pending restart of the xfce4-panel).
Working with Simon Steinbeiß, I installed an additional PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:thad-fisch/test
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install xfce4-indicator
Some observations follow.
The good news:
* The Sound Menu indicator which was not visible before is now visible.
* Setting the overall "hide indicators by default" function now works. The change is visible immediately and Logout-login shows "No Indicators" on Panel 0.
* Clearing the "hide indicators by default" function now works. The change is visible immediately and Logout-login shows the indicators restored on Panel 0.
* Setting the "hidden" switch on an individual indicator works. The change is visible immediately and Logout-login shows the indicator to be missing as expected on Panel 0.
Room for improvement:
* Still missing on Panel 0: Power Management indicator. This machine has indicator-power 12.10.6+
* Clearing a "hidden" switch appears to be like a dead action because no change to the checkbox is immediately visible to the operator. However, after logout-login, the reset did actually take even though it was not visible before logout. Clearing the box should be immediately visible even though logout-login is needed for the clear to be in effect.
Need any tests or further logs or other info from me?
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: xfce4 (not installed)
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-22-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Fri Apr 4 07:38:40 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-08 (177 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Beta amd64 (20131008)
SourcePackage: xfce4
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-03-25 (9 days ago)
Related branches
- Dmitry Shachnev: Approve
- Pasi Lallinaho: Pending requested
- Ubuntu branches: Pending requested
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Diff: 730 lines (+662/-0)6 files modified.pc/01_upstart-init.patch/panel-plugin/indicator.c (+570/-0)
.pc/applied-patches (+1/-0)
debian/changelog (+6/-0)
debian/patches/01_upstart-init.patch (+64/-0)
debian/patches/series (+1/-0)
panel-plugin/indicator.c (+20/-0)
Changed in xfce4-indicator-plugin (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Sean Davis (smd-seandavis) |
It says right on the config "Please restart the panel for visibility changes to take effect."
I don't think that one is easily fixable, and certainly not for trusty.