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 Indicator Applet Developers, which is subscribed to indicator-applet in ubuntu. Status in “pidgin” source package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: 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. 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". _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dx-team Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dx-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
