Impossible to use kadu - cannot trigger kadu window from notification area icon.

Bug #874888 reported by Piotr Czachur
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kadu (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

When you close main kadu window it becomes hidden, but its icon remains in notification area (always worked that way). What is wrong is that there is no way to get kadu window back, because clicking on icon in notification are shows only options for changing activity status.

This bug makes kadu completely unusable - you cannot get to application window in any way.

P.S.
Maybe it's because now unity doesn't make a difference if you click right or left mouse button on the icon in notification area. Clicking with left button used to be the way to get kadu window back.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: kadu 0.9.2-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Oct 15 11:03:42 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/kadu
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SourcePackage: kadu
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-14 (0 days ago)

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Piotr Czachur (zimnyx) wrote :
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Piotr Galiszewski (piotrgaliszewski) wrote :

Thank you for your report. We received a couple of similar bugs on our own forum and bugtracker. We gonna work on this and create appropriate patch.

Notice for Ubuntu people:
The only problem is, why the hell upstream developers have not been informed earlier about such changes earlier?!
No-one from developers is Unity, so we were unable to check this.

Now we are flooded by bug reports of angry users. Most of them think that this is only our fault. Thanks for your behavior we are loosing user. Thank you you very much Canonical for such great collaboration with upstream!

Changed in kadu (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Piotr Czachur (zimnyx) wrote :

Piotr, I'm not sure if it's left-right click problem. Skype works fine under Oneric - I can left-click on the notification-area icon to restore main window, or right-click to see some options.

Who let package with such critical bug to Oneric?

And btw, half year ago kadu, when Unity came into play, kadu was also unusable, because its icon wasn't allowed to show in notification area. So we got "not-working" kadu bugs in last two releases of ubuntu. Does anybody test kadu in Ubuntu team, before release is made?

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Piotr Galiszewski (piotrgaliszewski) wrote :

Kadu is in universe package. They don't care about all stuff that is there. There are only taking packages from debian and rebuilding them for current version. Debian doesn;t have unity, so there are no patches for this DE.

We will try to add some workarounds for ubuntu and release today/tomorrow version 0.10.1. Prezu will upload packages to his ppa. That's everything we can do for now.

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Fabrice Coutadeur (fabricesp) wrote :

Hi,

I'm closing this bug report as Fix Released as this is working fine in Precise, with 0.11.1. Please check and if this is not working fine, please reopen this bug report.

Thanks,
Fabrice

Changed in kadu (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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Fabrice Coutadeur (fabricesp) wrote :

Nop, it's still the case. Reopening.

Changed in kadu (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Released → Confirmed
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Bartosz Brachaczek (b-brachaczek) wrote :

Really? What is the preferred way to fix this issue? I thought there is a "Restore" action in the context menu appearing when you click on Kadu icon. There is also indicator_docking plugin that puts Kadu into the Messaging Menu where Empathy and other IM clients are - by default it's installed, but disabled. Please respond, so we (upstream) can act properly.

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