gnome-typing-monitor disappears from notification area via keyboard dialog

[Jonathan Lim]

Overview Description:
gnome-typing-monitor disappears from the notifications area when managed via the
keyboard dialog.
There is no apparent way to get it back via the keyboard dialog.

Steps to Reproduce
1) Open the Keyboard dialog Computer->Desktop Preferences->Keyboard
2) Select the Typing Break tab
3) Tick the Lock screen option
4) Close dialog
5) Right-click on typing break icon in notification area
6) Select Preferences
7) Deselect Lock screen

Actual Results
The typing-break icon disappears from the notifications area and will not
reappear using the keyboard dialog toggle.

Expected Results
The icon should remain in the bar, but greyed out.
This is the behaviour if you run gnome-typing-manager independently.

The gnome-typing-monitor via the Computer->Desktop Preferences->Keyboard dialog
enables and works fine.
However, if I disable it by toggling the Lock Screen, it disappears from the
notification area, and does not return when I try to toggle it on again.

If I start the gnome-typing-monitor from the command line, it greys out the icon
in the notifications area instead.

Build Date & Platform
capplets version 1:2.8.0-0ubuntu5 on Warty
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 44676 2004-10-12 19:10
/usr/bin/gnome-typing-monitor

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=170452: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=170452

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

I've opened an upstream bug for this:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=170452

[Jason Toffaletti (jason)]

I was able to reproduce on breezy the behavior of gnome-keyboard-preferences not
showing gnome-typing-monitor after a series of enables/disables and running
gnome-typing-monitor from the command line. Upstream's last comment is asking if
this is a debian/ubuntu specific bug, can anyone test this out on another
distro, Fedora, Gentoo, etc. and get back to upstream?

[Martin Bergner (martin-bergner)]

I can also reproduce this behaviour with dapper.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Could somebody having that issue comment upstream?

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Does anybody still have the problem in Dapper or Edgy?

[Martin Bergner (martin-bergner)]

This still happens in Dapper, yes.

[Wouter Stomp (wouterstomp-deactivatedaccount)]

Is this still a problem in gutsy and/or hardy?

[Martin Bergner (martin-bergner)]

Following the steps in the first comment, I can't reproduce the problem on gutsy anymore.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

closing the bug