[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2014-11-05 Thread Mochamad Taufan Rezzafri
@paddy-landau, i'm aware of that ppa but no package for utopic yet. unity version on utopic up to now is 7.3.1+14.10.20141016-0ubuntu1. fyi, the patch on https://github.com/chenxiaolong/Unity-for- Arch/tree/master/unity works :D -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2014-10-29 Thread Paddy Landau
@rezzafri See comment #42 for a patch that already whitelists the systray. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/974480 Title: Notification area whitelist is obsolete To manage

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2014-10-28 Thread Mochamad Taufan Rezzafri
There is systray whitelist patch and other patches for arch here https://github.com/chenxiaolong/Unity-for-Arch/tree/master/unity, right now i am compiling for utopic with this patch -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2014-09-02 Thread Anton Piatek
It is a bit of a mixture. Looking at my status bar (with hacked unity) I see an external (bought in) app - antivirus. Skype is sometimes quoted by others. I also see two internal icons, which are related to our internal compliance. I also have two IBM applications which are sold, and will try

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2014-09-02 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
Anton, the Skype package in the Ubuntu archives uses an application indicator via sni-qt. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/974480 Title: Notification area whitelist is obsolete To

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2014-09-01 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
Vdragon, see my 2014-02-24 comment for why the notification area can't just be provided as an indicator. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/974480 Title: Notification area whitelist is

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2014-09-01 Thread Anton Piatek
mpt, that doesn't seem to me a reason why we can't have a drop down area for legacy apps. Yes their behaviour will be unpredictable for Ubuntu but it would still work for legacy apps. I run a corporate repository for 6000 users and we are having to fix each unity version so our corporate apps

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2014-09-01 Thread Paul Sladen
Anton: I'm interested in understanding the situation a little better: 1. Internal applications originally targeting eg. GNOME 2, and you're now needing to run these under Unity. 2. Bought-in (external non-IBM) applications originally targeting eg. GNOME 2, and you're now needing to run

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2014-08-27 Thread Vdragon
Hi, Is it possible to implement a indicator for a place for those legacy software icons? People may shut up if there's still a way to access them. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2014-08-05 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
Paddy, no it doesn't mean anything in particular, for the reasons I gave you on January 6th. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/974480 Title: Notification area whitelist is obsolete To

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2014-08-05 Thread Paddy Landau
@mtp, I have reported the most important (for me) applications in question and nothing has happened. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/974480 Title: Notification area whitelist is

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2014-08-04 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
varlesh, I published our reasons for removing the notification area four years ago. http://design.canonical.com/2010/04/notification-area/ If the apps you list claim to work on Ubuntu but do not, please report bugs to the developers of those apps. -- You received this bug notification because

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2014-08-04 Thread Paddy Landau
@mpt, you can explain all you want, but it doesn't change the fact that this has broken a valuable part of Ubuntu. Does not the chorus of complaints mean something to you? We know that we want the developers to make their changes, but some developers simply just don't care (I know, because I have

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2014-08-01 Thread varlesh
Liferea, Geary, Qutim, Venom and other necessary and good programs do not working as they should on Ubuntu 14.04. Why do you deprive users habits and why you trim features? Why? Everything worked fine before, why should all break??? I'm upset and disappointed! -- You received this bug

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2014-06-29 Thread Dmitry Divius Tantsur
Folks, all words were said and you already know how your users hate you for this decision. You already know that users of Cryptkeeper, Audacious and many more have to rely on PPA because you broke what was working without any (even theoretical) advantage for them. But I'm soory frustrated after

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2014-05-29 Thread Anshuman Aggarwal
Dear Mark, Since you are 'on' this thread...Please see this post from the perspective of some one who has been an unabashed fan of Ubuntu, Canonical and your personal investment into an open source OS with the aim of making it self sustaining ...all of which are noble goals and I fully

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2014-04-18 Thread Maxim Loparev
So, trusty is here and i'm desperately waiting for the ppa update -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/974480 Title: Notification area whitelist is obsolete To manage notifications about

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2014-02-24 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
Ed, as Paul Sladen explained in 2013-02-09, the notification area was basically a set of tiny windows: a program could put anything in its window, responding to clicks, right-clicks, double-clicks, drags, or anything else, and doing anything in response, including opening menus in any toolkit. As

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2014-02-21 Thread Ed Guenter
Just wondering: Would it be possible to create a new Ubuntu component that makes use of the new indicator system ... to display stuff that would otherwise go the system tray? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2014-01-08 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
Paddy, yes, it may help to contact the developers of those applications -- though if they run their apps on Ubuntu at all, almost certainly they have realized by now that their notification area items don't show up by default. The Ubuntu Developer site has a reference for using the indicator

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2014-01-08 Thread Paddy Landau
Thank you for your reply, Matthew. I have already contacted the most important of the apps in question, and while one of them was most helpful and has changed the package, the others have not even replied, such is their indifference. I had understood you to mean that I should raise a bug report

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2014-01-07 Thread Paddy Landau
Matthew, thank you for posting that link. It would have been useful if I had had it when I previously requested third party developers to modify their programs. It is notable that two of those developers have not even bothered to reply to me; clearly, they don't care about Ubuntu (they obviously

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2014-01-06 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
Paddy, if you know of other popular runtimes that allow graphical applications with notification area elements to run on Ubuntu, where their developers are likely to be unaware of Ubuntu, please report those individually. (Anton's examples of C++ and Python don't fall into that category: they're

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2014-01-02 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
Maxim, the reason for excepting Wine and Java is stated in the last line of the bug description. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/974480 Title: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

Re: [Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2014-01-02 Thread Anton Piatek
Whereas my c++ and python developers also may not know that Ubuntu exists, so I am forced to use a PPA back port in a 6000 user corporate deployment as they have no plans to rework their code in the next 5 years. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2014-01-02 Thread Paddy Landau
Matthew, the last line reads, … Java and Wine would be hard-coded as the only software still able to use the menu bar as if it was a notification area, because their developers don't necessarily know that Ubuntu even exists. You do realise that there are other developers who don't necessarily

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2013-12-24 Thread Maxim Loparev
Hey Mark, can you please comment on this. According to the origin of this bug The application indicator system has been in place for two years now, which should be long enough for applications to adopt it. Ok, i asked one of the (Debian) developers to consider to support it in some tk app(so as

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2013-12-24 Thread Stephen M. Webb
@Maxim Loparev Thank you for making the effort to improve the Ubuntu desktop. The status notifier specification is popular and mature enough that in the half-decade since it was first published, most desktop toolkits have implemented and integrated it. You can find excellent documentation,

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2013-12-24 Thread Maxim Loparev
@Stephen Thanks for the link. design of one particular desktop environment that also happens to use code that implements the specification which developed this specification, forcefully dropped support of previous specification with similar functionality and obviously lacking the direction

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2013-12-24 Thread Paddy Landau
@bregama — … rather than commenting on a fixed and released bug… Fixed? How can you say fixed? This bug has broken packages, caused regressions, and fixed nothing whatsoever. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2013-12-24 Thread Stephen M. Webb
@Paddy Landau Not a single package in this bug is broken since they conform to the published status notifier specification, a common public specification developed through the freedesktop.org collaboration environment by a number of individuals representing various desktop toolkits, including but

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2013-12-24 Thread Maxim Loparev
@Stephen Third-party software is free to implement the common specification or not. Should they choose to not implement it or use the functionality if available in their toolkit of choice, their software will not work well on Ubuntu or many of its flavours. We hope they would choose to work well

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2013-11-23 Thread Rick Harris
Hear Hear! Been using this patch for quite some time now, so big thanks for maintaining sanity for the desktop people. However this previously working functionality is still spiralling in a downward direction. QT applications no longer show up in the systray and I've never had sni-qt work at

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2013-11-05 Thread Milos_SD
I installed Unity from unity-systray PPA on 13.10, but systray doesn't work. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/974480 Title: Notification area whitelist is obsolete To manage

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2013-11-05 Thread Maxim Loparev
@milos-sd That's empty autobuild according to the diff from saucy version https://launchpadlibrarian.net/155818257/unity_7.1.2%2B13.10.20131014.1-0ubuntu1_7.1.2%2B13.10.20131014.1-0ubuntu1systray1.diff.gz. The old patch can't be applied to the new sources, as it seems whole

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2013-11-05 Thread Jason Donahue
Finally got around to updating to 13.10 and find my patch no longer works. As Maxim stated com.canonical.Unity.Panel is not being used. So, now my ppa just whitelists everything. Again, the ppa is here: https://launchpad.net/~timekiller/+archive/unity-systrayfix to use it, of course: sudo

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2013-11-05 Thread Paddy Landau
Jason, thank you. We all appreciate your efforts. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/974480 Title: Notification area whitelist is obsolete To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2013-10-27 Thread Milos_SD
Will you release packages for 13.10? :) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/974480 Title: Notification area whitelist is obsolete To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2013-10-22 Thread Rainer Rohde
Skype no longer shows up in the indicator in 13.10, fresh install. Needless to say, Skype is actively running, I just can't get to it to control it without indicator... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2013-10-22 Thread Paddy Landau
@Rainer, I suggest that you raise a new bug. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/974480 Title: Notification area whitelist is obsolete To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2013-10-21 Thread Maxim Loparev
desperately waiting for timekillers PPA update since upgrade to 13.10 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/974480 Title: Notification area whitelist is obsolete To manage notifications

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2013-10-21 Thread Maxim Loparev
Mark, meanwhile what do you think about tcltk and JavaFX toolkits. Shouldn't they exists in Ubuntu universe? To be precise i'm talking about tkabber and davmail packages which broken by this amazing decesion for more than a year now. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2013-10-21 Thread Paddy Landau
Comment #84 : Sorry, Mark, I really thought that you no longer saw this thread. I take back comment #83. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/974480 Title: Notification area whitelist is

Re: [Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2013-10-20 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Hello Paddy ;) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/974480 Title: Notification area whitelist is obsolete To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2013-10-19 Thread Paddy Landau
Jason, Mark Shuttleworth does not receive comments from this bug. Please add comments and your vote to the bugs listed in comment #81. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/974480 Title:

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2013-10-18 Thread Teodor Milkov
Oop, they did it again - upgraded to 13.10 and my pidgin, workrave and other apps disappeared from the indicator area :-( -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/974480 Title: Notification

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2013-10-18 Thread Paddy Landau
#80: Please go to the following bugs and vote for each of them (click on the green writing near the top-right of each page). It may be worthwhile posting any relevant comments in those bugs, where applicable. Also, raise a new bug report for each of Pidgin, Workrave and the other apps. Bug

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2013-10-18 Thread Jason Lefkowitz
To belatedly add my $0.02: I'm a user of Rackspace's backup product Jungle Disk (https://jungledisk.com/). They provide Jungle Disk binaries for Linux, even packaging them as DEBs, which has made it very convenient to use with Ubuntu. Unfortunately their software relies on a systray icon to

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2013-08-14 Thread Jason Donahue
Luca: Just noticed the update. I've patched and uploaded a new version to my PPA. Just waiting for the packages to get built now. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/974480 Title:

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2013-08-14 Thread Paddy Landau
@timekiller — is there any way for this to be automated? It would save you a load of hassle. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/974480 Title: Notification area whitelist is obsolete To

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2013-08-11 Thread Terry Zhou
Please get systray indicator back, there are a lot of legacy applications won't adopt to this like pidgin and stardict. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/974480 Title: Notification area

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2013-08-08 Thread Paddy Landau
I see that Bug #721431 is marked as a duplicate. But it is not a duplicate; this bug says that we must disable certain apps, whereas Bug #721431 says that the Skype app is disabled and should not be disabled. Please remove that bug from the list of duplicates. -- You received this bug

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2013-08-07 Thread Luca Maranzano
Today my unity has been upgraded from 7.0.0daily13.04.18~13.04-0ubuntu1systray1 to 7.0.0daily13.06.19~13.04-0ubuntu1 and so no more systray :-( May be that timekiller will update his PPA, but if you are impatient and you want to apply his systray patch and rebuild Unity the command to use for

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2013-07-16 Thread Paddy Landau
@oriolpont You'll see an excellent workaround in comment #42. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/974480 Title: Notification area whitelist is obsolete To manage notifications about this

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2013-07-15 Thread Henning Sprang
+1 about this decision is bad for usability and everything. it breaks applications that are usually working just fine. it was already bad enough that Ubuntu broke applications by default by not letting them show up in the notifications area - see

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2013-07-15 Thread oriolpont
Me I also use a few legacy programs that need the notification area. My workaround (not mentioned yet): gnome-panel, with the notification area applet. I use a single, very small, non-expanded panel with this and other applets I still use (invest applet, classic menu, and window selector) in an

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2013-07-07 Thread asavah
Thanks Ubuntu team ... Guys, seriously, what the heck are you thinking about? In 13.04 half of the apps which used the old good systray are now broken. Unity way? no thanks. Gnome team and canonical are breaking the ways we, linux users, were used to for YEARS. And you guys seem to walk

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2013-06-29 Thread Aaron Roydhouse
After using using 13.04 everyday for good couple months now, I just want to come and let the team know just how aggravating this decision still is every day. I don't care about Ubuntu's politics or disagreements with Linux app developers who don't care to adopt the 'Unity way'. I care that my

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2013-06-24 Thread Jan-Åke Larsson
In my case it is davmail that has stopped working. (This is a java app that is suddenly not working - beats me why, since java is supposed to be in the hardcoded whitelist.) I don't see the rationale here (not that someone cares). Since the compatibility code is going to stay (Wine, Java), why

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2013-06-20 Thread John Lea
** Changed in: ayatana-design Status: Fix Committed = Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/974480 Title: Notification area whitelist is obsolete To manage

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2013-06-17 Thread John Kuang
I just filed Bug #1192020 which describes how Nautilus' file copy dialog cannot be reopened once closed due to it requiring the use of the system tray whitelist. It is ironic that while the application indicator system has been in place for two years now, which should be long enough for

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2013-05-10 Thread Aaron Roydhouse
Thank-you @Olegch, I found 'stalonetray' fixed this new Unity bug. Now my Chrome tray icon is back! More importantly, I can back up my laptop again, as that software only appears as a tray icon. Canonical is making everything so hard for regular Ubuntu users; every time you upgrade now you have

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2013-04-30 Thread ClaudeD
Olegc #61, I think you have a very decent workaroud with stalonetray. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/974480 Title: Notification area whitelist is obsolete To manage notifications

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2013-04-29 Thread Luca Maranzano
I've upgraded from 12.04 LTS to 13.04 and for the moment I need to have some important applications like SpiderOak and Druva InSync workig fine, so kudos to #42 @Jason aka timekiller++ for his work, it works for me like a charm. I'm a Unity fan, but it is not affordable for me to give up on

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2013-04-29 Thread Matthew Tucker-Simmons
@Luca, FYI SpiderOak has released a new version that now uses an AppIndicator. I notified them about the upcoming changes several months ago, they made some noises about fixing it in time for Raring, and lo and behold! They did it just in time for the release. -- You received this bug

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2013-04-29 Thread Kirill Kabardin
#42 Jason, you are the best! You just beat all superheroes at once in Fight against evil corporation contest. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/974480 Title: Notification area whitelist

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2013-04-29 Thread Luca Maranzano
I'm happy to share with you that I already got a positive response from Druva about AppIndicator: http://gsfn.us/t/2yv3x I'm quite convinced that time is not yet mature to be so drastic in abandoning the systray. Luca -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2013-04-26 Thread Olegch
I also miss this functionality and would prefer this to be available out of the box in Ubuntu. Meanwhile I found that stalonetray works very reliably as a replacement. You can also try trayer. Note that stalonetray requires some configuration, at least put the following in ~/.stalonetrayrc

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2013-04-25 Thread Maxim Loparev
So, just updated to 13.04 and don't see Java icons from davmail. What should i do?! Hipotetically, as i come here from this page https://launchpad.net/~timekiller/+archive/unity-systrayfix. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2013-04-15 Thread Paddy Landau
@3vi1 - Reading the comments, I understand that this feature request was designed specifically to deliberately break applications that do not adhere to the standards that Canonical has adopted. It is a pity, but we're unfortunately stuck with it. If you have applications that break (you can test

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2013-04-14 Thread 3vi1
Was this 'bug' (actually wishlist) written backwards such that the 'Fix released' means Wont Fix/breaking stuff, or am I reading that wrong? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/974480

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2013-04-03 Thread Stephen M. Webb
Fix Released in Unity Unity 7.0.0 R series. ** Changed in: unity Status: Fix Committed = Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/974480 Title: Notification area whitelist

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2013-03-31 Thread Sergey Korablin
Goodbye Ubuntu! You are not for human beings anymore... :-( -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/974480 Title: Notification area whitelist is obsolete To manage notifications about this

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2013-03-11 Thread none
A wishlist bug that breaks third-party software becomes high priority because of its origin, rather than being evaluated on its technical merits? It seems that the real intent behind many of Canonical's recent decisions is to make ubuntu break away from the larger linux community. -- You

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2013-03-07 Thread 3vi1
For a start, it enables us to offer predictable and reliable keyboard access to system menus. How can this be so, when Wine and Java apps are still supported? What makes them different than any other app that doesn't support appindicator? Isn't the fact that they are exceptions somewhat of an

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2013-02-20 Thread Ed Guenter
So as Jason said ... Java and wine get a pass ... for how long? And Jakob is right ... enterprise LTS users can stay on 12.04 for the next years; but there are other enterprise users who will want to update on a regular base; and not all of them might want to add yet another ppa to fix this. So,

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2013-02-20 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
Chris Giltnane and Ed Guenter: If you are under the impression that switching to RHEL will preserve the notification area, you should know that you'll just be jumping from one melting ice floe to another. https://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Design/Guidelines/MessageTray/Compatibility Ma Xiaojun:

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2013-02-20 Thread Chris Giltnane
mpt it seems your assumption is that we want to go, we don't, we really, really don't want to leave unity and Ubuntu. I am not a developer just a user but I have tried to help out with bug submissions and testing in the past. The problem we have is that we are being left with a stark choice, go

Re: [Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2013-02-15 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 02/14/2013 09:55 PM, mike stewart wrote: Maybe whats missing in the communication is something like: We're hoping that if we enact this change now, it'll bring to light the applications that need to be fixed, and together we'll be able to fix them by the time we get to 14.04 LTS. That

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2013-02-15 Thread Jason Donahue
Mark, I fully understand the desire to move forward with Unity. I don't see how this change does that. Let me explain (and please, correct me where I am wrong): * This is not a bug/security fix, no exploit is being fixed by removing the whitelist * This is not a performance enhancement. There

Re: [Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2013-02-15 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 02/15/2013 01:25 PM, Jason Donahue wrote: You keep mentioning moving forward, but I have yet to see an explaination of what *specifically* turning this off accomplishes other than disappointing anyone who still needs systray. For a start, it enables us to offer predictable and reliable

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2013-02-15 Thread Jason Donahue
Mark, Thank you for answering. At least now I understand *why* you are doing this beyond we want to. And thank you for keeping the project open source so I can say no to your no :) For anyone interested, I have scripted a process that will check for updates to the raring unity package sources,

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2013-02-15 Thread Jakob Schmitt
I understand Mark's approach, at least for apps which aren't included in the repos, e.g. Truecrypt. Canonical has never claimed to support them. For business users the LTS releases are recommended, anyway. With Ubuntu 12.04 they can still use systray for another 4 years. Then Ubuntu with Unity is

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2013-02-14 Thread mike stewart
Maybe I'm missing the benefits of this change, but from my viewpoint, this change (1) removes choice and (2) lacks any utility or benefit; other than to draw a line to divide those that support Ubuntu from those that don't. Sounds a lot like Apple or Microsoft, or maybe George Bush: My way or the

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2013-02-13 Thread Jason Donahue
It's obvious Canonical is notgoing to listen to it's users here, so I have taken the steps necessary to make Ubuntu/Unity a usable environment. I have reverted this change and posted a ppa here: https://launchpad.net/~timekiller/+archive/unity-systrayfix to use it, of course: sudo

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2013-02-13 Thread Bo Milanovich
I just don't see the reason why this had to be done. Why not leave it an option? Whitelisting is already hidden enough from the casual end-user so that s/he could not break it, but allows us to easily add legacy app support. And it worked. It worked just fine, in 99% of cases (in my particular

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2013-02-13 Thread Marius B. Kotsbak
Jason, you might want to try to make a package recipe to automatically merge in the reverting of the commit from the latest Ubuntu code (publish a branch where it is done first). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2013-02-12 Thread Ed Guenter
Working in the same company as Chris Giltnane does ... I can only agree. If whitelisting stays disabled ... unity turns useless for me and the other ubuntu users in our company. We will either turn to kubuntu/xubuntu ... or Redhat or Windows. If that is where you want to us to turn to, fine.

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2013-02-12 Thread Anton Piatek
Mark, I full appreciate your position and agree with direction, but you need to understand that this change would push nearly all enterprise users back to RedHat or even to things like Mint. 2009 is recent in enterprise terms, so spare a thought for those apps which have yet to be revisited for

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2013-02-10 Thread Mike M
at least this is foss, i fully expect someone to host a PPA with this commit reverted that people can use, so hopefully it shouldnt be too much of an issue for people who do really need it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2013-02-10 Thread Miguel
@Cliff I'm not saying Canonical have to please everyone. I say a complitly different thing. You need to listning to Costumers. Look someone says in the first post this: If the whitelist was retired, Java and Wine would be hard-coded as the only software still able to use the menu bar as if it

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2013-02-10 Thread Paul Sladen
Miguel/Cliff: it's a bit of a backronym, but perhaps think of it this way. We have the *buntu core (kernels, system libraries, brand, fonts, …) on top of which are built several optimised distributions (remixes): KDE: [Ku]buntu LxDE: [Lu]buntu XDE: [Xu]ubuntu Unity: [U]buntu Gnome3

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2013-02-10 Thread Miguel
@Paul First, i don't imply Ubuntu Phone OS or Ubuntu TV is cool because I think is cool. I say the vision is cool, have a unique OS for all, that was what I was saying. Like have the possibility to go to a reunion and use my phone and not have to carry my Laptop. Second, Canonical have the right

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2013-02-10 Thread Ma Xiaojun
Except some old school cooperate software that mentioned somebody else. What about IBus, the default input method framework of Ubuntu. It doesn't support AppIndicator yet. On the other hand, it's the Ubuntu specific have half-broken patch make it play with Ubuntu.

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2013-02-09 Thread Marius B. Kotsbak
I believe Pidgin is compatible with the indicators. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/974480 Title: Notification area whitelist is obsolete To manage notifications about this bug go

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2013-02-09 Thread MC Return
mariusko, here the latest Pidgin version just has the option System Tray Icon, but this option does not work anymore and I cannot find any indicator options... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2013-02-09 Thread Jakob Schmitt
There are some popular cross platform apps like Truecrypt and Dragondisk without indicator support. Vino also needs whitelisting because otherwise you won't recognise established remote desktop connections. Gnome Phone Manager, Artha, Cryptkeeper - just to mention some other Linux apps which

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2013-02-09 Thread Paul Sladen
James: I think a lot of it is about works with Ubuntu vs. works against some APIs that were made 10 years ago, and which most/some Unices' Windows Managers have supported at some time. For stuff to work with *the Ubuntu experience* some effort will be required; this is much the same as following

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2013-02-09 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Jason Donahue, Shutter (the screenshot app) is Perl and has appindicator support, I don't know the implementation details but you could perhaps ping the author of the application: https://launchpad.net/~mario-kemper Maybe there's a workaround we can post on the appindicator specs pages for Perl

[Bug 974480] Re: Notification area whitelist is obsolete

2013-02-09 Thread Paddy Landau
Oh man, I've just come across this bug as a result of testing 13.04 and, along with a number of other people, finding serious problems with this. It is a terrible decision! Why? 1. If the whitelist was retired, Java and Wine would be hard-coded as the only software still able to use the menu

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