Statusbar icons moving around and changing order after reboot

[Vasilescu Mihai]

[ Impact ]

 * Budgie Panel applet ordering sometimes randomly changes due to
   1. Forced shutdown causing the panel to corrupt itself
   2. or uninstalling an applet whilst it is still on the panel

 * Once the panel random reordering issue occurs, there is no way to recover the situation other then forcing a full panel reset that will lost any custom changes.

[ Test Plan ]

 * From the default ubuntu budgie layout, uninstall an applet like quicknote using budgie desktop settings
 * logout and login
 * note that applets begin to reorder themselves in random positions such as spacers and separators
 * reinstall quicknote and logout and login. Note that the reordering still occurs.
 * from the proposed repo install the following packages:

   sudo apt update
   sudo apt install budgie-desktop budgie-core libbudgie-plugin0 libbudgie-private0 libbudgietheme0 libraven0 gir1.2-budgie-1.0

 * Logout and login

 * Note the ordering on the panel should no longer be random and will reflect the layout in budgie-desktop-settings.
 * uninstall quicknote, logout and login
 * Note the ordering on the panel will still reflect the layout in budgie-desktop-settings

[ Where problems could occur ]

 * The budgie panel is central to the budgie-desktop experience. So any patch in this area needs to be thoroughly vetted through testing.
 * This has been achieved by creating a couple of test PPAs and multiple community members have confirmed their panel issues have been resolved by this patch.
 * https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/statusbar-icons-moving-around-and-changing-order-after-reboot/6266
   https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/applets-appear-in-the-wrong-place-on-panel-on-startup/5969/2
 * This fix has been in Debian for a couple of months and in a similar timeframe with Kinetic. Thus the UB team are content that no adverse issues have occurred. We have monitored errors.ubuntu.com and no increased budgie-panel issues have been reported.

[ Other Info ]

 * N/A

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I have got a problem in Ubuntu Budgie ever since I installed it. I’m also a newbie when it comes to Linux and I can’t figure at all how to solve the issue. Icons keep moving around in the status bar, including added unequal spaces between icons which I have never configured to be that way. I have attached a picture below that can describe my issue a bit better I hope.

budgie-desktop --version
budgie-desktop 10.6.1
Copyright © 2014-2022 Budgie Desktop Developers

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
Package: budgie-desktop 10.6.1-1ubuntu1~22.04
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.15.0-48.54-generic 5.15.53
Uname: Linux 5.15.0-48-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.1
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CurrentDesktop: Budgie:GNOME
Date: Fri Sep 23 11:58:16 2022
InstallationDate: Installed on 2022-09-18 (4 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Budgie 22.04.1 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" - Release amd64 (20220809.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: budgie-desktop
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
modified.conffile..etc.default.apport:
 # set this to 0 to disable apport, or to 1 to enable it
 # you can temporarily override this with
 # sudo service apport start force_start=1
 enabled=0
mtime.conffile..etc.default.apport: 2022-09-20T16:29:32.310030

[fossfreedom (fossfreedom)]

Confirmed the observation.

It can be easily reproduced by uninstalling an applet when that applet is on the panel.

It can also be reproduced by uninstalling an applet that is part of the default panel layout.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

is this fixed in kinetic?

[fossfreedom (fossfreedom)]

@tjaalton - yes it is fixed in kinetic.

[Chris Halse Rogers (raof)]

Hello Vasilescu, or anyone else affected,

Accepted budgie-desktop into jammy-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/budgie-desktop/10.6.1-1ubuntu2 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-jammy to verification-done-jammy. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-jammy. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[fossfreedom (fossfreedom)]

budgie-desktop/10.6.1-1ubuntu2
budgie-core/10.6.1-1ubuntu2
libbudgie-plugin0/10.6.1-1ubuntu2
libbudgie-private0/10.6.1-1ubuntu2
libbudgietheme0/10.6.1-1ubuntu2
libraven0/10.6.1-1ubuntu2
gir1.2-budgie-1.0/10.6.1-1ubuntu2

Test case passed - no regressions noted.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package budgie-desktop - 10.6.1-1ubuntu2

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budgie-desktop (10.6.1-1ubuntu2) jammy; urgency=medium

  * Bug-fix
    - selected keyboard layout not applied after reboot
      ibus-keyboard-handling.patch (LP: #1956240)
    - statusbar icons moving around and changing order after reboot
      Rewrite-initial-applet-layoute.patch (LP: #1990642)
    - With scaling enabled, right-positioned panel overlaps maximized windows
      Fix-math-for-calculating-right-panel-strut.patch (LP: #1981199)

 -- David Mohammed <email address hidden> Sun, 09 Oct 2022 13:55:14 +0100

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for budgie-desktop has completed successfully and the package is now being released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.