Panel menu-bar applet crashes after adding indicator-applet-appmenu

[Khurshid Alam]

Gnome-Panel menu-bar applet disappears when I add indicator-applet-appmenu (global-menu) to panel. However other indicators & applets are not affected.

It could be related Bug #1222339, where global-menu was causing each & every other applet to crash including global-menu itself. This bug was fixed in 3.8.0-1ubuntu6.

[Test Case]
1. install gnome-session-flashback.
2. login in session.
3. add indicator-applet-appmenu to gnome-panel. at this point menu-bar will dissapear.
4. remove indicator-applet-appmenu from panel to get menu-bar back.

[Regression Potential]
I think there is no regression potential. Same fix is used for external applets built with libpanel-applet library.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Thanks for uploading the fix for this bug report to -proposed. However, when reviewing the package in -proposed and the details of this bug report I noticed that the bug description is missing information required for the SRU process. You can find full details at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Procedure but essentially this bug is missing some of the following: a statement of impact, a test case and details regarding the regression potential. Thanks in advance!

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Hello Khurshid, or anyone else affected,

Accepted gnome-panel into trusty-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-panel/1:3.8.0-1ubuntu12 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

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If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

[Alberts Muktupāvels (muktupavels)]

This package fixes this bug, but will introduce new one, but I think that will be easy to fix.

This is how I tested it:
1) Installed trusty in virtual box.
2) Installed gnome-panel and indicator-applet-appmenu.
3) Logged in gnome flashback session with metacity.
4) Added indicator-appelet-appmenu. Menu bar applet disappeared.
5) Enabled -proposed and upgraded gnome-panel.
6) Logged out and logged in. Menu bar does not disappear.

New bug:
Launching application from Applications menu will inherit UBUNTU_MENUPROXY environment varibale - menu won't be removed from application and added to indicator applet. I have idea how to fix it, so I probably will provide fix for it today.

I will set tag to verification-done as this fix main (reported) problem and new bug won't make system unusable.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-panel - 1:3.8.0-1ubuntu12

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gnome-panel (1:3.8.0-1ubuntu12) trusty; urgency=medium

  * Update 40_unset_menuproxy.patch to unset menu proxy in
    gnome-panel too not only in applets (lp: #1310929, #1222339).
 -- Alberts Muktupavels <email address hidden> Tue, 22 Apr 2014 11:29:31 +0300

[Chris Halse Rogers (raof)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for gnome-panel has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regresssions.