This is really a bug in pidgin, not indicator-applet ** Description changed:
- Binary package hint: indicator-applet + If a user removes the indicator applet, or starts a session that does + not have it, then pidgin should detect that condition and use the system + tray instead. - 1) Ubuntu Jaunty Beta - - 2) indicator-applet: (the latest version from the Jaunty Beta repos) - Installed: 0.1.4-0ubuntu1 - Candidate: 0.1.4-0ubuntu1 - Version table: - *** 0.1.4-0ubuntu1 0 - 500 http://ch.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages - 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status - - 3) When I removed the new indicator-applet because it's not useful for - me now, I expected pidgin (that had been all alone in the indicator - applet) to move to its traditional place in the notification area. - - 4) Pidgin "disappeared" because its option "Show system tray icon: Always" was not activated. This had been reasonable, of course, when the indicator-applet was present. But it's not a good default behaviour when the applet is removed. - I admit that I did not have the idea to snoop around in the pidgin preferences myself... I thought that the applet was the new way in which the "tray icons" were displayed. - - My suggestion: If the user removes the applet, give him a list of - programs that the applet has gotten to know before, with checkboxes. - Whatever is checked gets "moved" to the place it used to be in previous - releases. - - I understand that this traditional place is not perfectly appropriate - according to some official usability guide (Andrew Starr-Bochicchio's - comment in Bug 346159). But well, one single icon in a separate tray, - that's not better, and I bet I'm not the only one who does not have - fifteen applications in there. Let the user choose, and help him a - little. - - In Bug 346159 the discussion touched the subject, but was kind of - poisoned. Let's not repeat that here. + We could consider establishing a best practice pattern for applications + that embrace the messaging menu, where the preference which describes + their use of the old notification area includes the option "use the + messaging menu if available". ** Tags added: canonical-indicators dxteam ** Summary changed: - Pidgin should be able to display notification area icon when the messaging menu is not available + Apps should display a system tray icon when the messaging menu is not available ** Package changed: indicator-applet (Ubuntu) => pidgin (Ubuntu) -- Apps should display a system tray icon when the messaging menu is not available https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/355329 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
