Application Indicator causes Gnome Power fallback icon to show/hide on each refresh

[w1zard]

The fallback status icon shown for gnome-power-manger swaps between hidden and visible states on each battery status refresh - approximately every 30 seconds.

Using dbus-monitor, the following errors are relevant;

When the icon is removed:

signal sender=:1.3 -> dest=(null destination) serial=436 path=/org/ayatana/NotificationItem/gnome_power_manager/Menu; interface=org.ayatana.dbusmenu; member=LayoutUpdated
   uint32 196
   int32 0

And when the icon restores:

signal sender=:1.3 -> dest=(null destination) serial=434 path=/org/ayatana/NotificationItem/gnome_power_manager/Menu; interface=org.ayatana.dbusmenu; member=LayoutUpdated
   uint32 195
   int32 0

These repeat constantly, on a 30-second cycle. However, when the battery is low, this rate of change increases to around once every 10 seconds.

From the research I have done, this is due to indicator-application, associated with the version of gnome-power-manager that Ubuntu uses - that is, patched to ensure notifications are handled by application-indicator.

Rolling back to a Debian build of gnome-power-manager fixes the problem - isolating indicator-application as the cause.

$apt-cache policy indicator-application
indicator-application:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 0.0.15-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
     0.0.15-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com lucid/main Packages

[Sense Egbert Hofstede (sense)]

Based on feedback in bug #526041 I'm considering this bug to be Confirmed.

[Sense Egbert Hofstede (sense)]

Apologises. It seems this bug is a duplicate of bug #529052. Please continue the discussion in that bug report.