Indicator-applet Uses Unnecessary Resources

Bug #964976 reported by JG
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This bug affects 12 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
indicator-applet (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
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Bug Description

I noticed that a process named e-addressbook-factory was taking up about 100 MB on my computer. After exploring the files that were involved I came to determine that libebook-1.2-12 was the likely culprit as it's a component of evolution responsible for address books. I don't use evolution and have uninstalled it but the package remains on my computer idly sucking up resources. When I tried to uninstall it, one of the other packages that would be uninstalled along with it was the indicator-applet, which makes no sense as it's not using any address book data.

My proposal based on this is to remove any evolution-related dependencies for the indicator-applet, being a simple calendar and time display. If someone isn't using evolution, there's no point in running a process that does nothing or keeping any packages that aren't going to be used in general.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: indicator-applet (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-20.32-generic 3.2.12
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-20-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 1.95-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Mar 25 21:52:56 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: indicator-applet
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-01-28 (57 days ago)

Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in indicator-applet (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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