regression: lost ability to show continuous status with tray/appindicator icon

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Same configuration and same beahaviour even if zenity is added in the systray-whitelist. I didn't have this issue with 11.04.

Hi,
I've got the same annoying problem using unity 11.10,and I've just got a work around : I've replaced zenity by yad (requires yad package installation of course and to add it to the dconf-editor desktop>unity>panel whitelist)
Hope it will help any one...

Unfortunately, it was done "by design":

http://git.gnome.org/browse/zenity/commit/?id=620d5505c59b5b5dd092bfa35bdf3e7723f1e7c3
http://git.gnome.org/browse/zenity/commit/?id=a079520980b238bc7fd95913877ca3d72de472c8

The functionality to display a status icon continuously still remains a requirement, and this is a zenity regression.

Reducing "zenity --notification" to implement just notifications (same as "notify-send") may be OK, but then a separate "zenity --trayicon" is required to maintain the functionality.

The replacement "zenity --trayicon --listen" should allow to change trayicon, tooltip, menus, etc., and also to close/quit the trayicon without user interaction.

Hello ceg,
you have edited my bug report and somehow I agree to you and somehow I don't.
I agree to you that displaying a tray icon is still a requirement.
I disagree that moving that function to a different option name is ok. It would be ok to implement a new function with a new name that does what --notification does now. Everything else would be a regression because it breaks all scripts which rely on 'zenity --notification'.

Hi Peter-Alexander,
you're right, and I agree it still is a regression looking at the --notification function alone. As far as I understand the reason for the change was the decision for an updated semantic. Notification now only means a bubble message, and is different from a status icon or window. Going with this might be more precise. But changing this without giving apps the chance to adopt and use a --trayicon option if they actually do need a continuous status indication one is really bad.

In any case, it would be good if you could post the issue to the upstram bugtracker.

hello
this bug is always alive and is present in xubuntu too (12.04).

zenity 3.4.0-0ubuntu4
xubuntu-desktop 2.152+ppa2

 pubpub (pub-david) wrote on 2012-01-05: #3

Hi,
I've got the same annoying problem using unity 11.10,and I've just got a work around : I've replaced zenity by yad (requires yad package installation of course and to add it to the dconf-editor desktop>unity>panel whitelist)
Hope it will help any one...

as he said
the problem is resolved, but all programs using zenity have to be rewriting.
That's a non-sense.

Take care of these regressions, linux suffers of this.
it's the second bug, the first one being resolved.

Now it worse than before. I've upgraded to Ubuntu 13.04 and now it's impossible to display systray icons. There is no whitelisting for systray icons anymore. The only exceptions are wine and java which are hardcoded. Everything else is blocked. yad too.

I guess someone needs to write indicator integration for yad and/or zenity. The other option is switching away from ubuntu.

Hello,

I don't use Ubuntu / Unity, but I propose a patch to have the --trayicon again. Can someone test with the latest code and let me know if works or not?

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=675064

Also, I'll be glad if someone send patches to fix it.

Kind regards

Bug exists in Ubuntu 12.04.5.
I unable to use "zenity --notification" in Unity and GNOME session.

But "zenity --notification" works as expected in MATE session.