Ubuntu
libdbusmenu package

With appmenu-qt some menus are blacked out in VirtualBox

Bug #641209 reported by Michael on 2010-09-17

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This bug affects 23 people

	Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
DBus Menu	Fix Released	Low	Unassigned	DBus Menu 0.4.4
appmenu-qt (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned
libdbusmenu (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Low	Michael Terry

Bug Description

Binary package hint: indicator-application

Start VirtualBox with the appmenu-gtk in use. Most of the entries in the "Machine" menu are blacked out - I suspect that these are entries that are initially greyed out in the menu and enabled later by the application, and that appmenu-gtk doesn't notice this.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: indicator-application 0.2.8-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-21.31-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-21-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Sep 17 13:17:04 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/indicator-applet/indicator-applet-appmenu
ProcEnviron:
LANG=fr_FR.utf8
LANGUAGE=fr_FR:fr:en_GB:en
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: indicator-application
XsessionErrors:
(bluetooth-applet:1721): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_widget_set_sensitive: assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed
(polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1726): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
(nautilus:1723): GConf-CRITICAL **: gconf_value_free: assertion `value != NULL' failed
(gtk-gnash:2193): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_style_detach: assertion `style->attach_count > 0' failed
indicator-applet-session.log:
Looking at Module: libme.so
Updating username label
Using user icon for 'Session d'invité' from file: (null)

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lp:~mterry/libdbusmenu/641209

Merged into lp:libdbusmenu/0.5 at revision 301

DBus Menu Team: Pending requested 2011-04-19

lp:ubuntu/natty/libdbusmenu

lp:~dbusmenu-team/libdbusmenu/ubuntu

Rejected for merging into lp:~ubuntu-desktop/libdbusmenu/ubuntu

Ken VanDine: Disapprove on 2011-10-13

Superseded for merging into lp:libdbusmenu/0.5

Ken VanDine: Pending requested 2011-01-27

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lp:~ubuntu-desktop/libdbusmenu/ubuntu (Merged)

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Michael (michaeljt) wrote on 2010-09-17:

Dependencies.txt Edit (2.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (50.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (805 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
indicator-applet-appmenu.log.txt Edit (28.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
indicator-applet.log.txt Edit (4.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

affects:

indicator-application (Ubuntu) → appmenu-gtk (Ubuntu)

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Michael (michaeljt) wrote on 2010-09-29:

Should this the a bug in "the application menu"?

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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote on 2010-12-04:

virtualbox is not a gtk app.

affects:

appmenu-gtk (Ubuntu) → indicator-appmenu (Ubuntu)

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Hernando Torque (htorque) wrote on 2010-12-25:

toppanel-vs-integrated.png Edit (100.9 KiB, image/png)

FWIW, this also happens with the latest VirtualBox release (virtualbox-4.0 and indicator-appmenu 0.0.13-0ubuntu4 in Natty).

Hernando Torque (htorque) on 2010-12-25

Changed in indicator-appmenu (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2011-02-09:

Could you try if that's still an issue in the current version?

Changed in indicator-appmenu (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Low

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Michael Thayer (michael-thayer) wrote on 2011-02-09:

Unchanged in a recently updated 10.10.

Kalle Valo (kvalo) on 2011-02-23

Changed in indicator-appmenu:
status:	New → Triaged
importance:	Undecided → Low
Changed in indicator-appmenu (Ubuntu):
status:	Confirmed → Triaged

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Hernando Torque (htorque) wrote on 2011-02-25:

This is now also affecting the GIMP.

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Alex Eftimie (alexeftimie) wrote on 2011-03-10:

I can confirm this with latest unity and virtualbox-4.0.4.

Guest Machine window has all menus disabled, except for Quit.

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Alex Eftimie (alexeftimie) wrote on 2011-03-23:

This appears to be fixed in appmenu-gtk 0.1.96-0ubuntu1, indicator-appmenu 0.1.97-0ubuntu1, virtualbox 4.0.4-70112~Ubuntu~maverick

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Dylan McCall (dylanmccall) wrote on 2011-04-12:

#10

This seems to be a wide reaching issue. I am encountering the same thing in Bzr-Explorer. (Marked that as a duplicate). In addition, I was writing a very simple Qt application that had a MainWindow with a completely normal menu. In the MainWindow's overrided constructor, I disabled some actions right away. Later on, I enabled those actions and the menus in indicator-appmenu remained disabled no matter how much I scowled at them.

Running my Qt application, Virtualbox or Bzr-Explorer with APPMENU_DISPLAY_BOTH=1, it is easy to see these miscommunications between appmenu-qt and indicator-appmenu itself. It is clear that the system is oblivious to at least one way Qt4 applications disable their menu items.

You see the same inconsistency with the Edit›Copy menu items in qtdemo's Main Window examples (like the Application example). However, the problem only occurs with those menu items, so I wonder if that might be a different issue (perhaps related to focus).

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Thomas Krause (krause) wrote on 2011-04-18:

#11

I also noticed this behavor in BZR Explorer. Everything that is related to the current active branch (so everyhting interesting) is not enabled and therefore unusable.

Can BZR-Explorer be blacklisted? Currently it is impossible to work with it (reverting local changes etc.).

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Thomas Krause (krause) wrote on 2011-04-18:

#12

P.S. I'm using a fully updated Natty Beta 2

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Mario Limonciello (superm1) wrote on 2011-04-18:

#13

At least for the VirtualBox case it mentions in the (greyed) menus what the key combo to activate that item, and that combo still works.

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Michael Terry (mterry) wrote on 2011-04-19:

#14

I know what is causing this, it's a silly typo in dbusmenu.

affects:	indicator-appmenu (Ubuntu) → libdbusmenu (Ubuntu)
Changed in libdbusmenu (Ubuntu):
assignee:	nobody → Michael Terry (mterry)
status:	Triaged → In Progress
affects:	indicator-appmenu → dbusmenu
Changed in appmenu-qt (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Invalid

Ted Gould (ted) on 2011-04-19

Changed in dbusmenu:
status:	Triaged → Fix Committed
milestone:	none → 0.4.4

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2011-04-19:

#15

This bug was fixed in the package libdbusmenu - 0.4.3-0ubuntu3

---------------
libdbusmenu (0.4.3-0ubuntu3) natty; urgency=low

  * Backport bug fixes from trunk:
    - Fix a typo in the signal name to make it match the XML
      files (LP: #641209)
    - Ref'ing the server for the entire time we're getting the
      bus (LP: #738568)
-- Ken VanDine <email address hidden> Tue, 19 Apr 2011 15:14:23 -0400

Changed in libdbusmenu (Ubuntu):
status:	In Progress → Fix Released

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Michael (michaeljt) wrote on 2011-04-19:

#16

I tried rebuilding the current Natty package with changeset 301 applied. It is certainly an improvement - sometimes the menus are displayed correctly, sometimes menus which should be greyed out are not, and after a couple of switches between different display modes (which if I recall correctly cause the window to be recreated) the menu stops dropping down at all, see attached screenshot. Of course, this may be a different issue.

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Michael (michaeljt) wrote on 2011-04-19:

#17

Screenshot of menu not dropping down Edit (17.9 KiB, image/png)

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Michael (michaeljt) wrote on 2011-04-19:

#18

Note that I didn't actually log out of the desktop, I just exited VirtualBox, killed unity-panel-service and restarted VirtualBox. I will see if there is any difference next time I do log out.

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Dylan McCall (dylanmccall) wrote on 2011-04-20:

#19

Okay, that fixes it for me with bzr-explorer and my own app I had mentioned. Thank you, mterry! :)

michaeljt, I have bumped into that as well and judging by your description it certainly isn't related to this fix (and probably not to this issue). There might already be a bug report, so consider searching for it or filing a new one if it's necessary.
The reason I don't think it's related is because people have been encountering that issue for quite a while.

Ted Gould (ted) on 2011-04-25

Changed in dbusmenu:
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released

joopbraak (joopbraak) on 2011-05-06

summary:

- With appmenu-gtk some menus are blacked out in VirtualBox
+ With appmenu-qt some menus are blacked out in VirtualBox

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