** Tags added: foca
** Tags removed: foca
** Tags added: focal
** Tags added: amd64
** Changed in: budgie-desktop (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Medium
** Changed in: budgie-desktop (Ubuntu)
Assignee: (unassigned) => fossfreedom (fossfreedom)
** Description changed:
[Impact]
First raised as part of this fix
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/budgie-desktop/+bug/1845455.
- That speculative fix did not resolve matters and has been dropped as
- part of this upload
+ That speculative fix did not resolve matters and had been dropped as
+ part of the 20.04 release.
Upstream (https://github.com/solus-project/budgie-desktop) bug-reports:
- #685 System Tray Icons too far apart on HiDPI
- #1037 Tray Applet Padding Setting
- #1210 artefacts with trays on bar (maybe? hard to tell)
- #1243 System tray blinking when panel transparency is set to "Dynamic"
- #1249 System tray icon backgrounds not refreshing
- #1271 Status icon does not get hidden
- #1419 System tray applet in the top panel doesn't show up after sleep
- #1420 System tray applet doesn't show up when added
- #1932 System tray icons are far apart
+ #685 System Tray Icons too far apart on HiDPI
+ #1037 Tray Applet Padding Setting
+ #1210 artefacts with trays on bar (maybe? hard to tell)
+ #1243 System tray blinking when panel transparency is set to "Dynamic"
+ #1249 System tray icon backgrounds not refreshing
+ #1271 Status icon does not get hidden
+ #1419 System tray applet in the top panel doesn't show up after sleep
+ #1420 System tray applet doesn't show up when added
+ #1932 System tray icons are far apart
- * This is a very noticeable visual issue to users that have the system-
+ * This is a very noticeable visual issue to users that have the system-
tray applet added to their budgie-panel
- * This affects 20.04 users - it has been uploaded to 20.10 for several
+ * This affects 20.04 users - it has been uploaded to 20.10 for several
weeks now.
- * Upstream resolved this by removing the old na-tray system tray applet
+ * Upstream resolved this by removing the old na-tray system tray applet
from their code-base and replacing the applet with "carbontray" i.e. it
is a ground up replacement. Over the many years of this issue many
attempts have been tried to resolve but upstream decided to a rewrite
was needed.
- * this upload backports the number of patches developed.
+ * this upload backports the number of patches developed.
[Test Case]
- * This is actually not an easy bug report to reproduce on demand. In
+ * This is actually not an easy bug report to reproduce on demand. In
general, add the system tray applet to your panel via budgie-desktop-
settings. Certain applications display their icon in the system tray
e.g. network manager applet, hexchat, ibus-preferences
- * Suspend for 10 minutes or more and resume. Repeat several times.
+ * Suspend for 10 minutes or more and resume. Repeat several times.
Observe the system tray in each cycle - sometimes the icons in the
system tray will display with a black background. Other times icons can
be combined (overlayed) with each other. Sometimes the issue can be
observed by first logon after a reboot. It rarely is observed by
logging out and logging in
- * Next enable the proposed repository in Update Sources (software-
+ * Next enable the proposed repository in Update Sources (software-
properties-gtk) - choose the reload option when prompted. Then install
the following packages to update:
- sudo apt install budgie-desktop budgie-core libbudgie-plugin0
+ sudo apt install budgie-desktop budgie-core libbudgie-plugin0
libbudgietheme0 libbudgie-private0 gir1.2-budgie-desktop-1.0
- * Reboot and login. Observe the system tray to ensure icons display
+ * Reboot and login. Observe the system tray to ensure icons display
correctly. Next repeat the suspend/resume cycle for several times and
again observe the system tray displays its icons correctly.
Additionally reboot and login - cycle this reboot/login cycle for
several times.
[Regression Potential]
- * The largest risk I suppose is introducing potential instability into
+ * The largest risk I suppose is introducing potential instability into
the budgie-panel i.e. crashes. This could come from some unknown issue
not yet captured or found upstream i.e. specific to Ubuntu 20.04 or not
capturing the full extent of the applet rewritten code from upstream.
- * This risk has been mitigated by
- - ensuring the patch is identical to upstream code base (diff -r
src/applets/tray ../budgie-desktop/src/applets/tray)
- - running with the fix for several weeks and observe if there are any new
apport-bug reports (/var/crash) for budgie-desktop. At the time of writing
this, I have personally been doing this for 3 weeks now.
- - Additionally - these changes have been tested for several weeks via
Debian Testing, 20.10, Solus Project. No adverse reports have been noted.
+ * This risk has been mitigated by
+ - ensuring the patch is identical to upstream code base (diff -r
src/applets/tray ../budgie-desktop/src/applets/tray)
+ - running with the fix for several weeks and observe if there are any new
apport-bug reports (/var/crash) for budgie-desktop. At the time of writing
this, I have personally been doing this for 3 weeks now.
+ - Additionally - these changes have been tested for several weeks via
Debian Testing, 20.10, Solus Project. No adverse reports have been noted.
- * In the advent of regression the user can remove the system tray
+ * In the advent of regression the user can remove the system tray
applet from their panel. It is optional in Ubuntu Budgie 20.04 and not
added to a users panel by default.
+ [Other Info]
- [Other Info]
-
- * N/A
+ * N/A
** Description changed:
[Impact]
First raised as part of this fix
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/budgie-desktop/+bug/1845455.
That speculative fix did not resolve matters and had been dropped as
part of the 20.04 release.
Upstream (https://github.com/solus-project/budgie-desktop) bug-reports:
#685 System Tray Icons too far apart on HiDPI
#1037 Tray Applet Padding Setting
#1210 artefacts with trays on bar (maybe? hard to tell)
#1243 System tray blinking when panel transparency is set to "Dynamic"
#1249 System tray icon backgrounds not refreshing
#1271 Status icon does not get hidden
#1419 System tray applet in the top panel doesn't show up after sleep
#1420 System tray applet doesn't show up when added
#1932 System tray icons are far apart
* This is a very noticeable visual issue to users that have the system-
tray applet added to their budgie-panel
* This affects 20.04 users - it has been uploaded to 20.10 for several
weeks now.
* Upstream resolved this by removing the old na-tray system tray applet
from their code-base and replacing the applet with "carbontray" i.e. it
is a ground up replacement. Over the many years of this issue many
attempts have been tried to resolve but upstream decided to a rewrite
was needed.
- * this upload backports the number of patches developed.
+ * this upload backports a series of patches developed to resolve -
+ these are detailed in the dep3 header of the carbontray.patch file in
+ the upload package.
[Test Case]
* This is actually not an easy bug report to reproduce on demand. In
general, add the system tray applet to your panel via budgie-desktop-
settings. Certain applications display their icon in the system tray
e.g. network manager applet, hexchat, ibus-preferences
* Suspend for 10 minutes or more and resume. Repeat several times.
Observe the system tray in each cycle - sometimes the icons in the
system tray will display with a black background. Other times icons can
be combined (overlayed) with each other. Sometimes the issue can be
observed by first logon after a reboot. It rarely is observed by
logging out and logging in
* Next enable the proposed repository in Update Sources (software-
properties-gtk) - choose the reload option when prompted. Then install
the following packages to update:
sudo apt install budgie-desktop budgie-core libbudgie-plugin0
libbudgietheme0 libbudgie-private0 gir1.2-budgie-desktop-1.0
* Reboot and login. Observe the system tray to ensure icons display
correctly. Next repeat the suspend/resume cycle for several times and
again observe the system tray displays its icons correctly.
Additionally reboot and login - cycle this reboot/login cycle for
several times.
[Regression Potential]
* The largest risk I suppose is introducing potential instability into
the budgie-panel i.e. crashes. This could come from some unknown issue
not yet captured or found upstream i.e. specific to Ubuntu 20.04 or not
capturing the full extent of the applet rewritten code from upstream.
* This risk has been mitigated by
- ensuring the patch is identical to upstream code base (diff -r
src/applets/tray ../budgie-desktop/src/applets/tray)
- running with the fix for several weeks and observe if there are any new
apport-bug reports (/var/crash) for budgie-desktop. At the time of writing
this, I have personally been doing this for 3 weeks now.
- Additionally - these changes have been tested for several weeks via
Debian Testing, 20.10, Solus Project. No adverse reports have been noted.
* In the advent of regression the user can remove the system tray
applet from their panel. It is optional in Ubuntu Budgie 20.04 and not
added to a users panel by default.
[Other Info]
* N/A
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