Skype tray icon appeared. It's against new unity philosophy.

[Konstantin Molchanov]

Binary package hint: unity

Possibly a feature, not a bug, though it's bad to return Skype tray icon, it's against new philosophy of ubuntu desktop.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: unity 3.4.4-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-3.30-generic 2.6.38-rc4
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-3-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,grid,gnomecompat,vpswitch,place,resize,move,shift,regex,mousepoll,thumbnail,session,animation,wall,workarounds,wobbly,fade,scale,expo,unityshell]
CompositorRunning: compiz
DRM.card0.LVDS.1:
 status: connected
 enabled: enabled
 dpms: On
 modes: 1366x768 1280x720 1152x768 1024x768 800x600 848x480 720x480 640x480
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DRM.card0.VGA.1:
 status: disconnected
 enabled: disabled
 dpms: On
 modes:
 edid-base64:
Date: Fri Feb 18 19:27:32 2011
DistUpgraded: Yes, recently upgraded Log time: 2011-02-17 23:19:57.658042
DistroCodename: natty
DistroVariant: ubuntu
GraphicsCard: Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:028d]
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha amd64 (20110202)
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MachineType: eMachines eMachines E627
ProcEnviron:
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 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-3-generic root=UUID=9cc66a8c-199d-45cf-b7a2-37cd9127c654 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
ProcVersionSignature_: Ubuntu 2.6.38-3.30-generic 2.6.38-rc4
Renderer: Unknown
SourcePackage: unity
dmi.bios.date: 10/20/2009
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dmi.bios.version: V1.08
dmi.board.name: eMachines E627
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dmi.chassis.version: V1.08
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dmi.product.name: eMachines E627
dmi.product.version: V1.08
dmi.sys.vendor: eMachines
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.2.1+glibmainloop4-0ubuntu11
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.23-1ubuntu3
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.10-1ubuntu3
version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.6~3ubuntu5
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.13.2+git20110124.fadee040-0ubuntu4
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.14.0-1ubuntu9
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20110107+b795ca6e-0ubuntu4

[Neil J. Patel (njpatel)]

This is a necessary evil for this release, as we won't have appindicator support in Skype. However, there is work to try and get the telepathy provider working as an alternative. To this end, I'm marking this as wishlist as we all want it to happen (skype using appindciator, but it might not be possible for natty).

[Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl)]

We'll whitelist a few apps which simply cannot work any other way in the
timeframe available. We'll have Skype indicator support done for Natty+1.

Mark

[Paddy Landau (paddy-landau)]

I see that this is marked as a duplicate of Bug #974480. But it is not a duplicate; Bug #974480 says that we must disable certain apps, whereas this bug says that the Skype app is disabled and should not be disabled.

Please remove this bug from the list of duplicates of Bug #974480.

In addition, "wishlist" is not appropriate. Many people use Skype; it is a de facto standard. This should be marked as a regression.

Also see Bug #1119420.

[Andrea Azzarone (azzar1)]

Skype now supports libappindicator. Marking as invalid.