No 'systray' icon: Ubuntu Lucid

[ottadini]

When I start hotot, I am apparently supposed to have a panel icon appear. I don't. I have the gnome notification area applet on my top panel, and I do get other notification icons.

[lyricat]

You can try to run it in the terminal, and tell me what it print out.

[ottadini]

Hi, this is the output from my shell. I quit hotot using ctrl+q.

Ben.

harb@joan:~$ hotot [init] overlay_variables() [init] on_load_finish() [init] on_load_finish() -> ext.load_builtin_exts(); [Load Extension] ./ext/org.hotot.cfw/entry.js [Load Extension] ./ext/org.hotot.gmap/entry.js [Load Extension] ./ext/org.hotot.imageupload/entry.js [Load Extension] ./ext/org.hotot.instapaper/entry.js [Load Extension] ./ext/org.hotot.sample/entry.js [Load Extension] ./ext/org.hotot.shorturl/entry.js [Load Extension] ./ext/org.hotot.translate/entry.js [Load Extension] ./ext/org.hotot.stat/entry.js [init] on_load_finish() -> ext.load_exts(); [init] on_load_finish() -> ext.init_exts(); [Init Extension] Hotot Content Firewall [Init Extension] Hotot GMap [Init Extension] Hotot Image Uploader [Init Extension] Hotot Instapaper [Init Extension] Sample [Init Extension] Hotot Short URL [Init Extension] Hotot Translate [Init Extension] Hotot User Stat [init] on_load_finish() -> push settings [init] on_load_finish() -> i18n.init() [i18n] Use locale: en [init] on_load_finish() -> init_ui() [init] init_dialogs() [init] done! [i18n] Use locale: en harb@joan:~$

On 16 November 2011 18:38, Shellex Wai < reply@reply.github.com

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You can try to run it in the terminal, and tell me what it print out.

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[relgames]

Take a look at http://code.google.com/p/hotot/issues/detail?id=449

[ottadini]

Cool thanks, will give it a try.

On 13 December 2011 02:36, Oleg Poleshuk < reply@reply.github.com

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Take a look at http://code.google.com/p/hotot/issues/detail?id=449

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[lyricat]

well ...

[gmorten1]

this is still a problem. i believe it affects all desktops that use gnome3 under the hood (including ubuntu 11.10 and linux mint, even in gnome classic mode).

is described in issues 449 and 452 on the old issue tracker http://code.google.com/p/hotot/issues/detail?id=452 you can hide the problem by uninstalling the python-appindicator package. but i need that package for some other apps, e.g. virt-manager

[gmorten1]

i see the OP was on lucid, so its apprently not a gnome3 specific problem.

some more details: this OP reported no notification icon at all, while some of the commenters on code.google.com reported a generic icon. that's what i get, a generic icon with limited functionality. what these issues all have in common is that they can be solved by removing that python-appindicator package

here's what it looks like on my linux mint 12 gnome classic desktop, after a left-click. the hotot icon is the ugly one to the left of the tomboy icon. note that the left click does not open hotot until you choose resume/hide

[ottadini]

Hi, yeah I must admit I never uninstalled python-appindicator: I don't see that it's much of a solution to hotot's bug to remove some other package.

[gmorten1]

i think the issue i described above is a duplicate of #17. but hairyson (the original poster on this issue) was on Lucid so he probably didn't have gnome shell. so either a) this issue isn't specific to gnome3 or gnome shell or b) there are 2 different issues (and mine is probably #17)

[lyricat]

cc @shellexy @xnreformer

[ghost]

fixed in 05f8a6c

[ottadini]

I don't know if my version matches '05f8a6c', but something new is broken:

harb@joan:~$ apt-cache policy hotot hotot: Installed: 2:0.9.7~git-1358-g5c7bb83-0ubuntu0ppa1~lucid1 Candidate: 2:0.9.7~git-1358-g5c7bb83-0ubuntu0ppa1~lucid1 Version table: *\ 2:0.9.7~git-1358-g5c7bb83-0ubuntu0ppa1~lucid1 0 500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/hotot-team/ppa/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

harb@joan:~$ hotot Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/hotot", line 14, in hotot.hotot.main() File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/hotot/hotot.py", line 423, in main indicator.set_icon_theme_path(utils.get_ui_object('image')) AttributeError: 'appindicator.Indicator' object has no attribute 'set_icon_theme_path'

On 28 January 2012 01:11, xz < reply@reply.github.com

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fixed in 05f8a6c

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[ghost]

now should be compatible with lucid: 61caec1

[gmorten1]

the indicator icon looks ok now (in hotot 0.9.7.37), but it still doesn't behave correctly when the python-appindicator package is installed

normal behavior when the python-appindicator package is NOT installed:

• the inidicator icon switches to the version with the moving eyes when there are new tweets and hovering over the icon shows a message with the number of unread tweets
• left-click opens the app
• right-click shows the menu with Resume/Hide, Compose, etc

with python-appindicator package installed:

• the panel icon looks ok, but it doesn't change to the moving eyes icon when there are new tweets
• left-click doesn't open the app, it just shows the menu
• right-click does the same thing

[ghost]

the icon has been fixed in 23d745e the rest is appindicator's behavior. there is no way to change it

[ottadini]

Hello, Just noticed that the resume/hide functionality only works to resume the window. If Hotot's main window is visible, then resume/hide should hide it I suppose, but it doesn't. It does show it if it was hidden however.

Ben.

On 30 January 2012 20:48, xz < reply@reply.github.com

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the icon has been fixed in 23d745e the rest is appindicator's behavior. there is no way to change it

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[gmorten1]

looks like someone already tried to fix this, but tested for the wrong value of DESKTOP_SESSION. here's a fix

% diff /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/hotot/hotot.py /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/hotot/hotot.py.sav
28c28
< if __import__('os').environ.get('DESKTOP_SESSION') in ('gnome-2d', 'classic-gnome','gnome-classic'):
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> if __import__('os').environ.get('DESKTOP_SESSION') in ('gnome-2d', 'classic-gnome'):

[ghost]

cc @shellex @shellexy

[gmorten1]

the default Linux Mint desktop has this problem also. there the value of DESKTOP_SESSION is 'gnome-shell'

instead of trying to use DESKTOP_SESSION to identify which desktops have this problem as i suggested previously, can you add a new preference "bypass python appindicator" to force HAS_INDICATOR = False ?

this may allow you to close issue #17 and maybe #122 also

do we agree this is a real issue? it seems clear to me. to summarize:

1. on some gnome based desktops, when the python-appindicator package is installed, the indicator icon never indicates when there are new tweets
2. when HAS_INDICATOR is set to False in hotot.py the indicator works ok

[LiamDawe]

Ubuntu 11.10 has no tray icon.

[lyricat]

The problem is that HAS_INDICATOR takes effect before hotot load settings. maybe I should remove appindicator support?

[gmorten1]

hotot definitely works better with self.has_indicator = FALSE on some platforms (specifically the "classic" gnome desktop variations in ubuntu and linux mint).

but aren't there other platforms where the python-appindicator feature is useful?

[milani]

I just want to report that I have tray icon in Ubuntu 11.10

[gmorten1]

shellex, i see what you mean about the self.has_indicator taking effect before the settings are loaded. so how about this? use a new environment variable to control the behavior. ugly but effective.

if (os.environ.get('DESKTOP_SESSION') in ('gnome-2d', 'classic-gnome')) or (os.environ.get('HOTOT_NOINDICATOR')):
    self.has_indicator = False

BTW i'm surprised more people aren't interested in this issue. i think it affects anyone using a classic gnome desktop on recent ubuntu or mint or... ?

[gmorten1]

the panel icon is working correctly in 9.8.3 on mint 12 with gnome classic desktop and python-appindicator package installed. thanks!!!