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Ayatana Indicator Messages Applet
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Doesn't work on Ubuntu 18.04 #1

Closed balbusm closed 3 years ago

balbusm commented 6 years ago

MessagingMenu is not shown while executing python script client-example.py (available in this repo). No error is displayed. I noticed that below packages are generated: gir1.2-messagingmenu-1.0 libmessaging-menu-dev libmessaging-menu0 They don't have ayatana prefix which may overlap with Ubuntu version. Moreover in python imports also ayatana prefix is missing.

System: Ubuntu 18.04 with GNOME desktop

sunweaver commented 5 years ago

This issue is indeed a problem. Originally, I planned to change the libmessaging-menu namespace to libayatana-messaging-menu namespace, but that would require many changes in 3rd party components building against libmessaging-menu.

In Debian/Ubuntu, we can do an epoch bump. But I will only start this discussion on debian-devel after the Debian buster release. Hope that is ok with everyone.

Are other distributions affected? Do other distros ship Ubuntu's version of libmessaging-menu from src:pkg indicator-messages? If not, then the epoch bump can be a viable solution.

sunweaver commented 4 years ago

@balbusm: just a heads up for this one. Ubuntu MATE has moved over from Ubuntu Indicators to Ayatana Indicators. They will release Ubuntu MATE 20.10 without -messages Indicator. This transition now needs to happen for the other Ubuntu flavours (and remixes), as well, at least those that use indicators.

Once, all desktops in Ubuntu have switched over to Ayatana Indicators, the -messages Ayatana System Indicator will finally be moved over from Debian to Ubuntu. I expect this to happen for the next LTS at the latest.

bluesabre commented 3 years ago

We just triggered a sync of xfce4-indicator-plugin from Debian, effectively dropping indicator-messages support for Xubuntu.

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xfce4-indicator-plugin/2.4.0-1

sunweaver commented 3 years ago

Closing this issue, it is a distro related problem and we don't support Ubuntu 18.04 from the upstream side anymore, anyway. As we ship Ayatana Indicators in upcoming Ubuntu Touch based on 20.04, we make sure that everything works fine for 20.04. The libmessaging-menu / ayatana-indicator-messages transition (from indicator-messages) in Ubuntu is another topic and also needs to be discussed on Launchpad.