Indicator applet doesn't show "typing break" notification level correctly

[Zaur Nasibov]

Binary package hint: indicator-applet

Indicator applet doesn't display GNOME keyboard's "Typing break" feature's level.

Please see attached screenshot.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported, but feel free to report any other bugs you find.

[Jason J. Herne (hernejj)]

Sebastien,
I cannot seem to find another bug report that describes this problem. If there is one, is there a reason this is not marked as a duplicate of it?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

> there a reason this is not marked as a duplicate of it?

the reason is that looking for number for hundred of duplicates filed every week takes quite some time which would not be used to work on fixing those issues, so rather than spending the time looking for submitters there I let the submitter look for the numbers themself directly

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

bug #533775 is the issue there

[Dylan McCall (dylanmccall)]

Thanks for your help, Sebastien, but that doesn't appear to be related. The issue here is that the indicator doesn't show progress; it is either red or green. (Previously, the green bar was gradually revealed).

That behaviour would be difficult to replicate with the typing break indicator since icons can't be built on the fly with libindicate; there would need to be a bunch of icons, one for each percentage level, like the battery icon. If I recall correctly, though, that behaviour (the partially filled bar) changed upstream with the last release anyway, so this isn't a regression from being indicatorized.

However, the indicator does stand out incorrectly on the panel, due to the work on polishing panel icons this release. Its icon is either green or red; a departure from all the other monochrome icons. The two (red and green) icons are shipped with the typing break indicator, in /usr/share/gnome-control-center, and could be patched against gnome-control-center downstream.

I filed a bug upstream asking for the typing break indicator to use an icon “the normal way” so we could provide a specific replacement in the ubuntu-mono icon theme.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=613432

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

right, the level issue has been a design decision while changing the code to use indicators