Baltix
gossip package

empathy: out of the panel when gnome-panel respawned

Bug #80370 reported by Alex Mauer
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empathy (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Telepathy
gossip (Baltix)
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Undecided
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: empathy

If gnome panel dies while empathy has an icon in the notification area, the icon will appear as a separate window, and won't show up in the notification area until empathy is restarted.

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Andrew Conkling (andrewski) wrote :

Does this happen with other programs? I seem to recall seeing this behavior before, but with other programs (e.g. Gaim, Liferea, Pygmy).

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Xavier Claessens (zdra) wrote :

At least it happens with normal gossip, it's not a gossip-telepathy bug.

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tweedledee (terrywatt-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

It appears that bug 81107 is a duplicate of this. In addition, this appears to be happening to a variety of people with many programs. There is a forum thread here about this issue: http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=347023. It may be related to the fact that all programs launched from the panel share the same PGID; a gnome developer claims that assigning a shared PGID to apps from the gnome panel is not standard gnome behavior.

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Andrew Conkling (andrewski) wrote :

Actually, IIRC at least with GTK+ 2.8, there was some tricky handling one had to do to get a program to survive any system tray. I'm not sure what has changed since then, but this could easily be that GTK+ bug cropping up.

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tweedledee (terrywatt-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

You may well be correct. Gnome developer claims to have resolved this as a GTK bug: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=401481.

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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

Is this still a problem with the newest gnome-panel?

Changed in gossip-telepathy:
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

erm GTK...

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Alex Mauer (hawke) wrote :

If "newest" means "2.10.11-0ubuntu1" then yes, it's still a problem.

Alex Mauer (hawke)
Changed in gossip-telepathy:
status: Needs Info → Confirmed
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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

Gossip upstream has quit supporting telepathy. Work is going on in the empathy project now. Do you have the problem with empathy (in gutsy)?

Changed in gossip-telepathy:
assignee: nobody → telepathy
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Alex Mauer (hawke) wrote :

Yes, this problem still exists with empathy/gutsy

Alex Mauer (hawke)
description: updated
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Guillaume Desmottes (cassidy) wrote :

Could you try with latest version of empathy (0.21.5.2) please?

Changed in empathy:
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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Andrew Conkling (andrewski) wrote :

Guillaume, it seems to be fixed now.

Changed in empathy:
status: Incomplete → Fix Released
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