Comment 195 for bug 403135

On Mon, 07 Jun 2010 02:53:13 -0000
"Nick B." <email address hidden> wrote:

> On 06/05/2010 11:49 AM, Konstantinos Natsakis wrote:
> > I believe this bug is somehow related to a change in gnome-
> > panel_1:2.29.5.1-0ubuntu1 when the building of applets as shared
> > libraries was deactivated (they are now build as standalone executables)
> >
> > Changelog:
> > http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/g/gnome-panel/gnome-panel_2.30.0-0ubuntu1/changelog
> > * debian/rules:
> > - don't build in process applets during the unstable cycle so crash
> > issues should be easier to debug and reported on the corresponding binary
> >
> > It seems to me that due to this change, the notification area icons get
> > the background of the program's main window instead of the panel's
> > background.
> >
> > Compiling gnome-panel with '--with-in-process-applets=notification-area'
> > in debian/rules (and no other changes), fixes this bug for me.
> >
> > I have uploaded modified gnome-panel packages to my PPA:
> > https://launchpad.net/~cyfex/+archive/ppa in case others want to try
> > this (you need gnome-panel and gnome-panel-data; killall bonobo-
> > activation-server and gnome-panel after installation)
> >
> >
> Actually using --with-in-process-applets=notification-area isn't
> necessary. In previous releases it's been compiled with
> --with-in-process-applets=all but this line has been commented out in
> Lucid. Simply uncommenting it and recompiling is enough to fix it.
>

I think this points at this bug being solely a gnome-panel issue, so perhaps we
should close of all the other tasks in this bug report, and reopen the
gnome-panel task?

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Kind regards,
Chow Loong Jin