Skype system tray menu "blinks"

[Vladimir Mityukov]

When I click on the Skype icon in the top panel, I always get the following behavior:

1. It appears for a fraction of second;
2. It hides for a fraction of second;
3. It appears again, now for as long as I want it.

It's not happening on occasion, but every time. I can move mouse to the next app indicator and then gol back to Skype -- and it will "blink" again.

Attaching a video, though, there is no panel itself in it (Bug #1004422).

[Evgeniy (evg73)]

Looks like it rebuilds the menu every time the menu is activated.

[Eduardo (ludentico)]

This behavior is still present in Skype 4.2 under Unity in Ubuntu 13.04

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Marco Cimmino (cimmo)]

Hi,
yes Skype clears and re-creates the menu at every click, but this is not causing any blinking on other distributions (i.e. Kubuntu) and also it was not a problem on Ubuntu itself before v12.04 if I remember correctly.
I also checked the code and looks like when the package 'sni-qt' is installed then the slot 'aboutToShow' for the menu is triggered twice, when the package is uninstalled then is triggered only once, keeping Skype code exactly the same. This is very suspicious.

Without pointer fingers, I believe the 'sni-qt' package is the real cause of this bug, but I cannot proove it for sure.
Marco

[Marco Cimmino (cimmo)]

Actually Canonical seems have fixed this on Ubuntu 13.10, Vladimir can you double check please?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.