Ubuntu
budgie-indicator-applet package

Some tray icons are missing

Bug #2023519 reported by Jijo Joseph
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This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
budgie-indicator-applet (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
fossfreedom
Jammy
Fix Released
Medium
fossfreedom
Lunar
Fix Released
Medium
fossfreedom
Mantic
Fix Released
Medium
fossfreedom

Bug Description

[ Impact ]

 * Users who use the chrome browser and chrome based extensions & apps such as Element no longer see a panel icon - it is sometimes either hidden or shown with an empty icon symbol

 * In 2019 chrome tried to support xembed, appindicators and kdestatusnotifier. Unfortunately, appindicators (as was then) should two icons in the panel - one empty symbol, the second the appindicator/kdestatusnotifier.

 * chrome has now dropped both appindicators and xembed support. This allows us to revert the 2019 change.

 * In 2019 we blacklisted chrome icons. This patch reverts this and removes the blacklisted icons

[ Test Plan ]

 * Launch chrome and/or element desktop

 * Look at the panel where other ayatana appindicators are shown (verify the position of the budgie-indicator-applet in budgie-desktop-settings)
 * with the current implementation - an icon should appear but with an empty symbol, or may not appear at all.
 * enable the proposed repository in Menu - Update sources - developer options
 * for 22.04: via a terminal type:
   sudo apt update
   sudo apt install budgie-indicator-applet/jammy-proposed
 * for 23.04: via a terminal type:
   sudo apt update
   sudo apt install budgie-indicator-applet/lunar-proposed
 * untick the proposed repository via Menu - Update sources - developer options
 * Logout and login
 * Launch chrome / element-desktop
 * look at the position in the panel where the ayatana indicator applet (budgie-indicator-applet) is based. The chrome/element-desktop icon should be visible and clicking on the applet will display the associated app menu.

[ Where problems could occur ]

 * Ayatana indicators have fairly good KDEStatusNotifierItem support which is what chrome now uses. There are though some chrome based apps that use image types that ayatana indicators do not support. In these cases, the same empty symbol/no icon is shown. This could be construed as confusing as to why some chrome apps now begin to work and others don't.
 * This will have to be another update once upstream have resolved:
   https://github.com/AyatanaIndicators/libayatana-appindicator/issues/47

[ Other Info ]

 * Due to the imminent end-of-support for kinetic an upload for this series hasn't been done.

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Tray icons of some apps are not shown in AppIndicator applet. I believe the underlying problem is with KStatusNotifierItem support. Apps like Slack, Element are some apps that exhibit the problem.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
Package: budgie-indicator-applet 0.7.2-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.19.0-43.44~22.04.1-generic 5.19.17
Uname: Linux 5.19.0-43-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.5
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CurrentDesktop: Budgie:GNOME
Date: Mon Jun 12 10:45:47 2023
InstallationDate: Installed on 2023-03-26 (77 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Budgie 22.04.2 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" - Release amd64 (20230223)
SourcePackage: budgie-indicator-applet
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

See original description
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Jijo Joseph (jijojosephk) wrote :
Revision history for this message
fossfreedom (fossfreedom) wrote :

Analysis and PPA created via our discourse forum. This will form the basis of the SRU

https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/tray-icons-missing-kstatusnotifieritem-support/6754

no longer affects: budgie-indicator-applet (Ubuntu Mantic)
Changed in budgie-indicator-applet (Ubuntu Mantic):
importance: Undecided → Medium
Changed in budgie-indicator-applet (Ubuntu Lunar):
importance: Undecided → Medium
Changed in budgie-indicator-applet (Ubuntu Jammy):
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Triaged
Changed in budgie-indicator-applet (Ubuntu Lunar):
status: New → Triaged
Changed in budgie-indicator-applet (Ubuntu Mantic):
status: New → Triaged
Changed in budgie-indicator-applet (Ubuntu Jammy):
assignee: nobody → fossfreedom (fossfreedom)
Changed in budgie-indicator-applet (Ubuntu Lunar):
assignee: nobody → fossfreedom (fossfreedom)
Changed in budgie-indicator-applet (Ubuntu Mantic):
assignee: nobody → fossfreedom (fossfreedom)
description: updated
Changed in budgie-indicator-applet (Ubuntu Mantic):
status: Triaged → In Progress
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package budgie-indicator-applet - 0.7.2-3

---------------
budgie-indicator-applet (0.7.2-3) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Revert v0.6.2-1 now that ayatana indicators has more
    support for chrome kdestatusnotifieritems so allowing
    chrome based extensions and apps to display in the applet
    (LP: #2023519)
    Revert-hiding-of-chrome-icons-now-that-they-have-res.patch

 -- David Mohammed <email address hidden> Tue, 13 Jun 2023 21:32:00 +0100

Changed in budgie-indicator-applet (Ubuntu Mantic):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
fossfreedom (fossfreedom)
description: updated
description: updated
fossfreedom (fossfreedom)
Changed in budgie-indicator-applet (Ubuntu Lunar):
status: Triaged → In Progress
Changed in budgie-indicator-applet (Ubuntu Jammy):
status: Triaged → In Progress
Revision history for this message
Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100) wrote : Please test proposed package

Hello Jijo, or anyone else affected,

Accepted budgie-indicator-applet into lunar-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/budgie-indicator-applet/0.7.2-2ubuntu1~23.04 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-lunar to verification-done-lunar. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-lunar. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

Changed in budgie-indicator-applet (Ubuntu Lunar):
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
tags: added: verification-needed verification-needed-lunar
Changed in budgie-indicator-applet (Ubuntu Jammy):
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
tags: added: verification-needed-jammy
Revision history for this message
Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100) wrote :

Hello Jijo, or anyone else affected,

Accepted budgie-indicator-applet into jammy-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/budgie-indicator-applet/0.7.2-2ubuntu1~22.04 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-jammy to verification-done-jammy. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-jammy. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

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Jijo Joseph (jijojosephk) wrote :

Hi Lukasz,

Did upgrade with:

sudo apt --only-upgrade install budgie-indicator-applet

Test result: Success

Version tested: budgie-indicator-applet/jammy-proposed,now 0.7.2-2ubuntu1~22.04 amd64

Steps:

1. Install the update.
2. Logout and Login
3. Open the app which was not having the tray icon.
4. See if the icon is displayed.
5. Click on the tray icon menu and test all the actions in the menu and make sure they're working.
6. Repeat steps 4-5 for apps which were already working and confirm the results.

I can confirm that the fix works as expected and did not break any existing functionalities.

Changed in budgie-indicator-applet (Ubuntu Jammy):
status: Fix Committed → In Progress
Jijo Joseph (jijojosephk)
Changed in budgie-indicator-applet (Ubuntu Jammy):
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Jijo Joseph (jijojosephk)
tags: added: verification-done-jammy
removed: verification-needed-jammy
Revision history for this message
fossfreedom (fossfreedom) wrote :

Testing lunar (23.04) -

test snap was element-desktop.

On lunar, the icon for element was not visible in the panel.

installed 0.7.2-2ubuntu1~23.04 from lunar-proposed

logged out and logged in and ran element-desktop - icon correctly displayed.

Tested icon menu options - they work as expected.

tags: added: verification-done verification-done-lunar
removed: verification-needed verification-needed-lunar
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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote : Update Released

The verification of the Stable Release Update for budgie-indicator-applet has completed successfully and the package is now being released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package budgie-indicator-applet - 0.7.2-2ubuntu1~22.04

---------------
budgie-indicator-applet (0.7.2-2ubuntu1~22.04) jammy; urgency=medium

  * Revert v0.6.2-1 now that ayatana indicators has more
    support for chrome kdestatusnotifieritems so allowing
    chrome based extensions and apps to display in the applet
    (LP: #2023519)
    Revert-hiding-of-chrome-icons-now-that-they-have-res.patch

 -- David Mohammed <email address hidden> Tue, 13 Jun 2023 21:32:00 +0100

Changed in budgie-indicator-applet (Ubuntu Jammy):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package budgie-indicator-applet - 0.7.2-2ubuntu1~23.04

---------------
budgie-indicator-applet (0.7.2-2ubuntu1~23.04) lunar; urgency=medium

  * Revert v0.6.2-1 now that ayatana indicators has more
    support for chrome kdestatusnotifieritems so allowing
    chrome based extensions and apps to display in the applet
    (LP: #2023519)
    Revert-hiding-of-chrome-icons-now-that-they-have-res.patch

 -- David Mohammed <email address hidden> Tue, 13 Jun 2023 21:32:00 +0100

Changed in budgie-indicator-applet (Ubuntu Lunar):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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