Dropdown menu disappears on update

[Damiano Dallatana]

Binary package hint: indicator-applet

I started using indicator-applet with Ubuntu 9.10, so I do not know if it's a new bug or an old one.

I am using Pidgin as IM app, and when I click on the indicator applet to show the dropdown menu, and a contact logs in or writes me, the dropdown menu disappears, while the applet remains active.

Steps to reproduce:
1. open pidgin (also empathy?) and enable an account with some login/logout activities
2. click on indicator-applet to show the dropdown menu
3. wait for a contact to login or write something to you

What happens: the dropdown menu disappears, the applet remains "active" (brown color on the back). To show the menu again and select something in it you have to make the applet unactive clicking on it once and click on it again to show the menu - hoping nobody else logs in before you click on the event!

What should happen: the menu gets updated with the new event, and stays open.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Nov 2 15:14:01 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: indicator-applet 0.2.0-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: indicator-applet
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report

[David Barth (dbarth)]

Looks more like a messaging menu issue to me.

[Ted Gould (ted)]

This happens as the menu is cleaned out on an update which confuses GTK. We need to recycle the menu items better and not remove them all the time.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package libdbusmenu - 0.2.8-0ubuntu2

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libdbusmenu (0.2.8-0ubuntu2) lucid; urgency=low

  * debian/control:
    - restore vcs location, we move back to the non import version, the other
      one don't allow merging trunk changes

  [ Ted Gould ]
  * Upstream Merge
    * Changing the parse function to get_children instead of
      taking them. (LP: #471044)
    * Supporting AboutToShow in event callbacks to catch up
      with QT implementation.
    * Unrefing on layout updates (LP: #545026)
    * Resetting sync versions on disconnection
    * Removing useless warning
 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:36:06 +0200