Messaging menu not grabbing gwibber tray icon quickly enough

[Brian Curtis]

Binary package hint: gwibber

Tray icon loads before messaging menu can grab it, causing black vertical line for split second.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: gwibber 2.31.92-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-20.29-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-20-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Sep 10 10:00:30 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Alpha amd64 (20100803.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gwibber

[Brian Curtis (bcurtiswx)]

In some cases there's only movement from the tray area.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

thats probably a bug in the patch to remove notification area icon in gwibber.

[Ken VanDine (ken-vandine)]

No, that patch doesn't remove the notification area icon, just the setting in gwibber-preferences. It's because of the fallback to the status icon, we check for interest in the indicator, and hide the status icon when the indicator tells us it is interested. So our initial check for interest is false, so we try to display the status icon, then we get the signal there is interest and we hide the status icon.

We need to allow for that delay somehow.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

it's not a bug in the applet

[Ken VanDine (ken-vandine)]

We had discussed this with Ted, hopefully there can be a way to handle the interest check faster to solve this for all apps that check for interest.

[Ted Gould (ted)]

The libindicate portion of this was in the last release of libindicate.