pidgin does not wait for the menubar to load on startup

[Jochen Eisinger]

Binary package hint: pidgin

Pidgin internally has "visibility managers". There always has to be at least one. If you start pidgin at session startup, the visibility manager representing the docklet will first be registered, when the dockbar is completely loaded.

This causes two problems:

1. even if you set the buddy list to auto-hide using the extended preferences plugin, the buddy list will show at startup (the buddy list is also a "visibility manager")
2. if you close the buddy list before the dockbar has completely loaded, pidgin will quit (this is reported several times as "pidgin crashes when closed after startup")

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Could you try to reproduce the same with Ubuntu 8.10 or 9.04? Thanks in advance.

[Jochen Eisinger (jochen-penguin-breeder)]

Yes, it is still an issue.

And no, I wouldn't mind a bit more activitiy!

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Do you get the same with Lucid or Maverick? Thanks in advance.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.