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

[Simon Steinbeiß]

This might be a bug in the bluetooth indicator or the bluetooth stack, hard to say. So I suggest you report a bug about that (it's not really related to this call of testing).

Thanks to everyone for your results!
Simon


On Sat, 05 Apr 2014 10:16:48 +0100
David Pearson <dave at reklan.co.uk> wrote:

> On my thinkpad, the indicator stays white, regardless of Bluetooth being on or off.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Dave
> 
> Sent from my Nexus 7...
> 
> On 5 Apr 2014 03:08, Shuhao <shuhao at shuhaowu.com> wrote:
> >
> > Can anyone confirm that the bluetooth indicator will always be white 
> > regardless if it is on or off. 
> >
> > Shuhao 
> >
> > On 04/04/2014 03:06 PM, Dave wrote: 
> > > 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 
> > >>> 
> > >>> 
> > >>>   > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > >