[Bug 779382] Re: update-notifier not visible under unity

[Michael Vogt]

I have a port for s-c now at: lp:~mvo/update-notifier/app-indicator-port

But I'm slightly concerned about adding it at this point of the cycle, mostly because of the
various derivatives using update-notifier. It looks like xubuntu and lubuntu do not have libappindicator
on their default installs, so this would add another dependency for them (not sure how much that
matters for them).

The fallback mode of the app-indicator is also not ideal, if there is no indicator support it will use
a GtkStatusIcon, but it does not provide the full API of it, most importantly for me is that it does
not support setting tooltips for the icon. So that would be a regression for anyone not running
unity.

I look into what can be done to fix this next but the GtkStatusIcon that is used as the fallback is in
the private data so I can not access that. I will see if I can use the "connected" property of the 
indicator to do a manual fallback.

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Title:
  update-notifier not visible under unity

Status in Unity:
  Fix Released
Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “unity-2d” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in “update-notifier” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “unity” source package in Natty:
  Triaged
Status in “unity-2d” source package in Natty:
  Invalid
Status in “update-notifier” source package in Natty:
  Won't Fix
Status in “unity” source package in Oneiric:
  Fix Released
Status in “unity-2d” source package in Oneiric:
  Invalid
Status in “update-notifier” source package in Oneiric:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: update-notifier

  Hi,

  although there is a running update-notifier process, I don't see any
  indication of available new packages or security updates when using
  the new unity desktop.

  regards

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: update-notifier 0.111ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Sun May  8 10:41:21 2011
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=de_DE:en
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   LC_MESSAGES=de_DE.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/tcsh
  SourcePackage: update-notifier
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-05-02 (5 days ago)

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