Some tray icons are missing
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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budgie-indicator-applet (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
fossfreedom | ||
Jammy |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
fossfreedom | ||
Lunar |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
fossfreedom | ||
Mantic |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
fossfreedom |
Bug Description
[ Impact ]
* Users who use the chrome browser and chrome based extensions & apps such as Element no longer see a panel icon - it is sometimes either hidden or shown with an empty icon symbol
* In 2019 chrome tried to support xembed, appindicators and kdestatusnotifier. Unfortunately, appindicators (as was then) should two icons in the panel - one empty symbol, the second the appindicator/
* chrome has now dropped both appindicators and xembed support. This allows us to revert the 2019 change.
* In 2019 we blacklisted chrome icons. This patch reverts this and removes the blacklisted icons
[ Test Plan ]
* Launch chrome and/or element desktop
* Look at the panel where other ayatana appindicators are shown (verify the position of the budgie-
* with the current implementation - an icon should appear but with an empty symbol, or may not appear at all.
* enable the proposed repository in Menu - Update sources - developer options
* for 22.04: via a terminal type:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install budgie-
* for 23.04: via a terminal type:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install budgie-
* untick the proposed repository via Menu - Update sources - developer options
* Logout and login
* Launch chrome / element-desktop
* look at the position in the panel where the ayatana indicator applet (budgie-
[ Where problems could occur ]
* Ayatana indicators have fairly good KDEStatusNotifi
* This will have to be another update once upstream have resolved:
https:/
[ Other Info ]
* Due to the imminent end-of-support for kinetic an upload for this series hasn't been done.
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Tray icons of some apps are not shown in AppIndicator applet. I believe the underlying problem is with KStatusNotifierItem support. Apps like Slack, Element are some apps that exhibit the problem.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
Package: budgie-
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 5.19.0-43-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.5
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckR
CurrentDesktop: Budgie:GNOME
Date: Mon Jun 12 10:45:47 2023
InstallationDate: Installed on 2023-03-26 (77 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Budgie 22.04.2 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" - Release amd64 (20230223)
SourcePackage: budgie-
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
Changed in budgie-indicator-applet (Ubuntu Lunar): | |
status: | Triaged → In Progress |
Changed in budgie-indicator-applet (Ubuntu Jammy): | |
status: | Triaged → In Progress |
Changed in budgie-indicator-applet (Ubuntu Jammy): | |
status: | In Progress → Fix Committed |
tags: |
added: verification-done-jammy removed: verification-needed-jammy |
Analysis and PPA created via our discourse forum. This will form the basis of the SRU
https:/ /discourse. ubuntubudgie. org/t/tray- icons-missing- kstatusnotifier item-support/ 6754