duplicate appindicators

[Ken VanDine]

[ Impact ]

I'm seeing duplicate appindicators for snaps built with core22, like mattermost-desktop and discord.

[ Test case ]

From shell point of view:
 - Lock / unlock your desktop multiple times

With applications (both cases must be fixed):
 1) Electron apps
    - Install ferdium (https://github.com/ferdium/)
    - Open it in guest mode, go to settings
    - Toggle the "Always Show Ferdium in System Tray" option multiple times
    - Once disabled indicators should go away and be added again

 2) KDE Status Notification apps
    - Download Telegram desktop (snap install telegram-desktop)
    - Run it with:
      XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=KDE Telegram
      or
      XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=KDE telegram-desktop
    - Disable notificationn area icon and enable it again
    - The icon should be hidden and shown again accordingly

[ Regression potential ]

 - Icon could not show at all or with the wrong content
 - Icon updates may lead to more CPU usage
 - Updated to icon could not be properly visible

ProblemType: BugDistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.10
Package: gnome-shell-extension-appindicator 42-3ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.15.0-46.49-generic 5.15.39
Uname: Linux 5.15.0-46-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair
ApportVersion: 2.23.0-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Thu Sep 29 09:46:07 2022
DistributionChannelDescriptor:
 # This is the distribution channel descriptor for the OEM CDs
 # For more information see http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DistributionChannelDescriptor
 canonical-oem-sutton-bionic-amd64-20200511-23+sutton-knuth-bionic-amd64+iso
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-05-18 (863 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 "Bionic" - Build amd64 LIVE Binary 20200511-12:31
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
RebootRequiredPkgs: Error: path contained symlinks.SourcePackage: gnome-shell-extension-appindicator
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to kinetic on 2022-08-30 (29 days ago)
modified.conffile..etc.default.apport: [modified]
mtime.conffile..etc.default.apport: 2020-05-11T08:18:53

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-shell-extension-appindicator - 42-3ubuntu2

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gnome-shell-extension-appindicator (42-3ubuntu2) kinetic; urgency=medium

  * debian/patches: Hide icons when state changes to passive or name is lost
    (LP: #1991263)

 -- Marco Trevisan (Treviño) <email address hidden> Thu, 29 Sep 2022 23:58:35 +0200

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

reopening, we are still getting reports of the issue with the most recent version

[Utkarsh Gupta (utkarsh)]

Ubuntu 22.10 (Kinetic Kudu) has reached end of life, so this bug will not be fixed for that specific release.