Add systray support

Bug #596879 reported by David Barth
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Unity
Fix Released
High
Neil J. Patel
unity (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
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Bug Description

This is a note to add limited systray support before A2.

Tags: backlog

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David Barth (dbarth)
Changed in unity:
importance: Undecided → High
milestone: none → 2010-07-01
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Neil J. Patel (njpatel) wrote :

Punting for a couple of weeks, until indicator-network has a bit more testing. Also, we need to find a way for indicator-network to only be enabled in the unity session if the user has both ubuntu-desktop and ubuntu-netbook installed.

Changed in unity:
assignee: nobody → Neil J. Patel (njpatel)
milestone: 2010-07-01 → 2010-07-08
status: New → Confirmed
Neil J. Patel (njpatel)
Changed in unity:
milestone: 2010-07-08 → 2010-07-22
David Barth (dbarth)
Changed in unity:
milestone: 2010-07-22 → backlog
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Neil J. Patel (njpatel) wrote :

Needs for indicator-network to be used by default

Changed in unity:
importance: High → Wishlist
status: Confirmed → Triaged
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Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl) wrote : Re: [Bug 596879] Re: Remove systray support

Pls target to natty A1

David Barth (dbarth)
Changed in unity:
milestone: backlog → 3.2
tags: added: backlog
Changed in unity:
importance: Wishlist → High
Neil J. Patel (njpatel)
Changed in unity:
milestone: 3.2 → 3.6
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Neil J. Patel (njpatel) wrote : Re: Remove systray support

As we re-targetted the first drop of the indicator-fronted network-manager for A1, this slipped off the radar. We still require this for java and wine applications, and I'm re-targetting this to try and get it in Unity in the next couple of weeks for testing.

The spec is at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MenuBar#Vestigial%20notification%20area

Changed in unity:
milestone: 3.6 → 3.2.10
summary: - Remove systray support
+ Add systray support
description: updated
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6205 (6205-reactivated-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Removed systray from 11.04 will be a problem for apps like Skype and similar, which can be closed to systray. Without systray you cannot reopen them, also you cannot start a new instance of the application and only option left is to kill the application process...

Neil J. Patel (njpatel)
Changed in unity:
milestone: 3.2.10 → 3.2.16
Neil J. Patel (njpatel)
Changed in unity:
milestone: 3.2.16 → 3.4
Neil J. Patel (njpatel)
Changed in unity:
milestone: 3.4 → 3.4.4
David Barth (dbarth)
Changed in unity:
milestone: 3.4.4 → 3.6
Neil J. Patel (njpatel)
Changed in unity:
milestone: 3.6 → 3.4.4
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
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Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl) wrote : Re: [Bug 596879] Re: Add systray support

Can we whitelist Skype too, please? It's a TCR - Top Claire Request :-)

Mark

Changed in unity:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Dmitry Tantsur (divius) wrote :

And what about hundreds of apps that do not still support indicators (e.g Gajim)?

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Tom Ellis (tellis) wrote :

This whitelist implementation works very well for me, it gives flexibility to allow users to add items to the whitelist for apps that do not yet have indicator support and by default does not allow every single app to take over your systray.

@Dmitry: The whitelist is stored in dconf so you can modify the whitelist using gsettings:
gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Panel systray-whitelist "[ 'JavaEmbeddedFrame', 'Wine', 'Skype', 'gajim' ]"

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Dmitry Tantsur (divius) wrote :

Tom, then all apps that are not going to support indicators should be listed their by default

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Sukochev Roman (Leolik) (leolik) wrote :

When I use:
gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Panel systray-whitelist "[ 'all' ]"
and I try click on indicators in unity panel - menu showed only for two right indicators (logout and about me).

How fix that?

P.S. If I connect second monitor to my laptop, part of indicators (which I can't click) displayed on second monitor's panel and I can click its.

Sorry for my English.

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
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