Battery menu disappear malfunction (in GNOME "classic" fallback session, not in Unity)

[Bob Bib]

If you uncheck the "Show Time in Menu Bar" menu item (if it was checked before that), battery icon and menu unexpectedly disappear; if you re-login, battery icon re-appears, so you can re-select "Show Time in Menu Bar" item.

It happens only in GNOME "classic" fallback session, not in Unity.
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indicator-applet-complete 0.4.91-0ubuntu1
gnome-panel 1:3.3.91-0ubuntu1
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ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: indicator-application 0.4.91-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-18.29-generic 3.2.9
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-18-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.94.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Mar 10 19:23:35 2012
SourcePackage: indicator-application
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-03-07 (2 days ago)
indicator-applet-appmenu.log: DEBUG: Indicator-Applet-Appmenu - Icons directory: /usr/share/libindicator/icons/

[Bob Bib (bobbib)]

I've executed "ubuntu-bug indicator-applet-complete" and selected "other menu problems", but it reported the bug in "indicator-application" section. It's a little strange.

[Bob Bib (bobbib)]

No, it's not a bug #933466.

[Bob Bib (bobbib)]

I've moved a part of this to bug #981212.

[Charles Kerr (charlesk)]

Bob, is the battery menu still disappearing when you unclick "Show Time" in indicator-power version 2.0-0ubuntu1 or higher?

[Bob Bib (bobbib)]

charlesk,
yes, it still disappears on unchecking "Show Time In Menu bar" and I'm using (the latest in repos) indicator-power 2.0-0ubuntu1

[Bilal Akhtar (bilalakhtar)]

I don't think this should happen anymore. Seems to be related to indicator-applet-complete since I don't have the issue here on Unity.

[Bilal Akhtar (bilalakhtar)]

Can you confirm if the same issue happens under Unity?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Bob Bib (bobbib)]

bilalakhtar,
I've finally tested it in Unity;
no, it doesn't disappear this way in Unity.

[Bob Bib (bobbib)]

Still happens in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with:
indicator-applet-complete 0.5.0-0ubuntu1
gnome-panel 1:3.4.1-0ubuntu1

[Steve White (stevan-white)]

The battery indicator is displayed in the "Indicator Applet Complete" panel. However, I can't use that, because I have a small, wide screen, and it behaves badly in a vertical panel.

Note: the sound indicator is likewise missing, but is present in "Indicator Applet Complete".

On my system, when I change the System Settings dialog for the display of this indicator, the setting does not hold: the pop-down menu always shows gray when I re-open the dialog.

[Steve White (stevan-white)]

I may have mistaken this bug for another, related one.

Anyway, part of the confusion for me, was that several Indicator Applet packages exist in Ubuntu, and more than one produce items in the Add to Panel dialog. For "indicator", Synaptic shows:

    indicator-applet indicator-applet-appmenu indicator-applet-complete indicator-applet-session

These do different things. I have not sorted out which does what. The descriptions don't say much. It would be helpful if there were an "About" for panel applets (wasn't there one before?)

[Bob Bib (bobbib)]

Steve White,
> Anyway, part of the confusion for me, was that several Indicator Applet packages exist in Ubuntu, and more than one produce items in the Add to Panel dialog.

'indicator-applet-complete' is the one that embraces the functions of all others;
I strongly suggest you to search for the corresponding bug or open a new one, because it's unrelated to my bug.