Call for quick testing on 14.04: xfce4-indicator-plugin

[Dave]

Just done the smae on my Lenovo Thinkpad E530.

can confirm what Richard has done.. same here..

one additionall bit of info.. this was done on a clean install that had been
updated with all latest updates from the software updater.


regards

Dave

> On 04 April 2014 at 1
> 

> 1:47 Richard Elkins <richard.elkins at gmail.com> wrote:s
>  Thanks, Simon, for the quick response and action.
> 
>  4 indicators under the indicator plug-in:
>     1. Application Indicators
>     2. Power Management
>     3. Sound Menu
>     4. Messaging Menu.
>  Much better.  My observations in the last 1/2 hour:
>     1. The Audio Menu which was not visible before is now visible.
>     2. Still missing: Power Management indicator.
>     3. Setting the overall "hide indicators by default" function now works.
>  The change is visible immediately and Logout-login shows "No Indicators" on
> Panel 0.
>     4. Clearing the "hide indicators by default" function now works.  The
> change is visible immediately and Logout-login shows the indicators restored
> on Panel 0.
>     5. Setting the "hidden" switch on an individual indicator works.  The
> change is visible immediately and Logout-login shows the indicator to be
> missing as expected on Panel 0.
>     6. Clearing a "hidden" switch appears to be like a dead action because no
> change is immediately visible.  However, after logout-login, the reset did
> actually take even though it was not visible before logout.  Clearing the box
> should be immediately visible even though logout-login is needed for the clear
> to be in effect.
>  What can I do to assist?  Further information needed?  More testing?
> 
>  Richard
> 
> 
>  On 04/04/2014 05:12 AM, Simon Steinbeiß wrote:
> 
>      > > 
> >      Dear all,
> > 
> >      as Richard Elkins recently noted there have been problems with the
> > indicators in 14.04, however we've prepared a fix meanwhile.
> >      You can install the updated package that should hopefully fix things
> > from this PPA (there are a bunch of other packages there too, just upgrade
> > the xfce4-indicator-plugin package).
> >      https://launchpad.net/~thad-fisch/+archive/test
> > <https://launchpad.net/%7Ethad-fisch/+archive/test>
> > 
> >      (as always, you can follow these steps to add the PPA from the
> > terminal:
> >      sudo add-apt-repository ppa:thad-fisch/test
> >      sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install xfce4-indicator-plugin)
> > 
> >      Then restart your session and all your indicators that were missing
> > before (most likely -sound and -datetime, if you have it installed) should
> > be back.
> > 
> >      Then please report your results here by replying to this thread.
> > Ideally you'll have a system that hasn't been tempered with config-wise. (To
> > make sure, you can add a new user. Unless you've tempered with system-wide
> > settings...)
> > 
> >      Thanks in advance!
> >      Simon
> > 
> > 
> >  > 

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