Can't remove "Indicator Applet" from panel.

The later part of the comment train (from 2009-03-20 onwards) in bug 339818 applies to this bug.

As noted by sgs in that bug, the right-click menu is accessible with the mouse pointer on the very top pixel of the screen. Otherwise, it appears that, when indicator-applet is installed, but no indicators are installed, the greyed out "No indicators" message blocks access to right-click menu over almost all of the applet's area.

So... what is this Indicator applet supposed to indicate?

Ted, so from what I understand, we just need to add a Depends: indicator-messages to indicator-applet?

On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 17:22 +0000, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Ted, so from what I understand, we just need to add a Depends:
> indicator-messages to indicator-applet?

Yes, I believe so. Neither is useful without the other.

That doesn't make sense to me. indicator-applet may not be *useful* without any indicator plugins installed, but that doesn't excuse its UI totally breaking in that case.

On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 18:06 +0000, Max Bowsher wrote:
> That doesn't make sense to me. indicator-applet may not be *useful*
> without any indicator plugins installed, but that doesn't excuse its UI
> totally breaking in that case.

That's fair, I'm just not sure what to do. What happens is that it
builds a small menu item with the text "No Indicators" and them makes it
insensitive. Because it's insensitive it swallows all the clicks. The
only things I can think of are quite hacky. Perhaps making it sensitive
makes sense? That seems a little counter intuitive though.

Couldn't it just be a plain ordinary label widget?

On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 21:29 +0000, Max Bowsher wrote:
> Couldn't it just be a plain ordinary label widget?

Uhm. Yes. Yeah. Thanks! I was over-thinking it, thank you.

Uploaded, will be accepted after beta.

This bug was fixed in the package indicator-applet - 0.1.3-0ubuntu2

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indicator-applet (0.1.3-0ubuntu2) jaunty; urgency=low

  * debian/control: Add dependency to indicator-messages; the applet is
    currently fairly useless without it. (LP: #346359)

 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:25:29 +0100

Reopening, the addition of the dependency is more a mitigating workaround than a proper fix. It's not really true, either - as soon as someone writes a second indicator module, there's a legitimate use-case for wanting indicator-applet installed without indicator-messages.

On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 07:53 +0000, Max Bowsher wrote:
> Reopening, the addition of the dependency is more a mitigating
> workaround than a proper fix. It's not really true, either - as soon as
> someone writes a second indicator module, there's a legitimate use-case
> for wanting indicator-applet installed without indicator-messages.

Well, I can kinda see that. But effectively this bug number is tracking
two bugs. Martin fixed the first one. I've fixed the second but it
hasn't been uploaded yet.

This bug was fixed in the package indicator-applet - 0.1.4-0ubuntu1

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indicator-applet (0.1.4-0ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low

  * New upstream version
    * Changing the text in the license box to make sense. (LP: #346215)
    * Call GNOME Program Init to initialize all of the ATK and gettext
      stuff that needs to be initialized for it all to work. Patch from
      Eitan Isaacson. (LP: #349031)
    * Give the indicator applet an ATK name so it can be found by the
      accessibility frameworks. Patch from Eitan Isaacson. (LP: #349031)
    * Making it so the 'No Indicators' situation uses a label instead of a
      desensitized menu item to allow right click through. (LP: #346359)
    * Remove the making of 'Indicator Applet Factory' translatable.
      (LP: #349540)
    * Make sure translations get loaded and make the 'No Indicators' error
      and the license translatable. Patch from Gabor Kelemen. (LP: #349998)
  * debian/control: Adding libgnomeui-dev as a dependency as it was added
    upstream.

 -- Ted Gould <email address hidden> Mon, 30 Mar 2009 09:31:44 +0200