Panel should add the messaging indicator for users upgrading

I have tested this script a number of times, including in a pristine VM which was installed from an iso from before notify-osd was included. I did a dist-upgrade then ran the script. The applet was added just to the left of the notification area.

I also tested the scenario without a notification area, and got the desired error message.

Looks good!

I have had a couple random placements of the applet when running this script. Here is a gconf dump from when it was added to the left of the menu.

Screenshot as well

I modified the script a bit more to not allow position = 0 and seb told me about conditional autostart based on gconf values. I think this is what we are going to do

I put a testversion into my ppa:
https://edge.launchpad.net/~mvo/+archive/ppa?field.name_filter=panel&field.status_filter=published&field.series_filter=any
please test and give me feedback. There maybe a race with the gconf calls and the gconf that the panel is doing during statup. I tried a time.sleep(60) to avoid that in the migrate script but that caused it to not run at all. I have not investigated further yet.

It isn't running for me, I am seeing the gconf key is getting set to false but the applet never gets added

I pushed a new version into my PPA - it has some improvements and is also much more verbose. So if it fails, .xsession-errors should tell us why.

Still not running.

I tested this again, in a VM installed from a early feb jaunty iso and updated to current.

ii gnome-panel 1:2.25.92-0ubuntu2.1 launcher and docking facility for GNOME
ii gnome-panel-data 1:2.25.92-0ubuntu2.1 common files for the GNOME Panel
ii libpanel-applet2-0 1:2.25.92-0ubuntu2.1 library for GNOME Panel applets

Attached is the .xsession-errors log

gconf dump of /apps/panel

Latest .xsession-errors, after the applet was added

Here is a patch to the script, it was just a typo

typo fix uploaded in my ppa

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-panel - 1:2.26.0-0ubuntu2

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gnome-panel (1:2.26.0-0ubuntu2) jaunty; urgency=low

  [ Michael Vogt ]
  * auto add indicator applet on upgrade (LP: #340777)
  * run the add-indicator-applet.py script after a shell
    sleep of 60s. using time.sleep(60) inside the python
    code does not work as expected makes it crash(!) deep inside
    liborbit2 on the first gconf.set_bool() call

  [ Ted Gould ]
  * debian/patches/25_dynamic_fusa_detection.patch: Adjusting to
    make it also change the tooltip saying whether there is logout
    available on the system menu based on whether there is.
    (LP: #335242)

 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Wed, 18 Mar 2009 21:06:46 +0100