Notification icon doesn't survive changing of notification tray implementation

[Jeremy Nickurak]

Binary package hint: xchat-gnome

1) With gnome-panel running, open xchat-gnome and a number of other applications. For simplicity sake, configure the xchat-gnome notification plugin to be "always visible".
2) Switch to gnome-shell
3) Observe
4) Close and run-run xchat-gnome
5) Switch back to regular gnome-panel
6) Observe

Expected behavior:
Like most other applications, like nm-applet and the ubuntu-one client, xchat-gnome's notification icon should persist across changes in notification-area providers.

Observed behavior:
Xchat-gnome's notification area icon dissapears. If xchat-gnome was hidden at the time (by clicking on the icon), there is now no way to get it back, even though it's still running.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Oct 14 15:08:10 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Package: xchat-gnome 1:0.26.1-1ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.36-generic
SourcePackage: xchat-gnome
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic i686

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Thank you for providing detailed steps to reproduce the problem. I think the use case described is not a common one (for one thing gnome-shell is merely a universe component in Lucid, and not something being actively targeted at this time afaik), but that said, the general issue of this failing when changing between the two seems like a legitimate issue.

Would you mind checking if this misbehavior still occurs with Lucid?

[Jeremy Nickurak (nickurak)]

It does occur with lucid.

Other more common ways to trigger this:

- If the panel crashes or is restarted for any reason
- If the notification area is removed and added to the panel.
- If xchat-gnome finishes starting up before the panel finishes loading the notification area (race condition)

The bug has nothing to do with gnome-shell per se. Virtually all notification icons survive this... although I don't know enough about the code to know exactly how they do it.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

marking this as triaged, thanks for sent it upstream.