Comment 3 for bug 532005

I'm seeing similar behavior where the icon appears and disappears in the Notification area. Attached is a full strace from running it for less than a minute and disconnecting and reconnecting power. Each time there is an event or a poll, the icon disappears and reappears often expanding the size taken up in the notification area. Sometimes the icon disappears for a long time, but over an extended period, this causes extra space to be used in the notification area entire the entire panel is taken up by this "empty" space. I'm using the Human-Clearlooks theme.

gnome-power-manager: 2.29.91-0ubuntu5
upower: 0.9.1-1
dbus: 1.2.16-2ubuntu3