Regression: Jammy to Noble, right clicking on some icons shows dropdown on left side of screen

[theofficialgman]

[ Impact ]

In ubuntu jammy and previous releases, right clicking on appindicator icons brings up the menu below the appindicator with appropriate gnome theming. In ubuntu noble, right clicking on some appindicator icons (example: barrier) results in the menu appearing on the left side of the screen without proper theming.

See attached image.

[ Test case ]

Note: this only tests the appindicator-side that may have lead to "activating" the application, it's not something that will fix the applications issues that is a QT bug.

1. Start a QT application with indicator
   (after gnome-shell has started; e.g. clementine, barrier...)
2. The applindicator menu with shell theme should appear
3. No activation happens on the application (e.g. the window is not opened)

[ Regression potential ]

Mouse events aren't properly exposed to the indicators

[theofficialgman (theofficialgman)]

Upstream MR in gnome-shell to partially fix this https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/3283

[theofficialgman (theofficialgman)]

Upstream QT bugtracker url (can't add to launchpad because it doesn't recognize the format) https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-94871

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

An upload of gnome-shell-extension-appindicator has been uploaded to noble for this issue, but this bug lacks an SRU test case.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

sorry, the template is there but I had loaded this page yesterday and not refreshed!

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Hello theofficialgman, or anyone else affected,

Accepted gnome-shell-extension-appindicator into noble-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell-extension-appindicator/58-1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-noble to verification-done-noble. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-noble. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

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

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.