Ubuntu
liferea package

Liferea does not appear in Messaging Menu

Bug #702748 reported by Volodya
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liferea (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Reported upstream at https://github.com/lwindolf/liferea/issues/25

Binary package hint: liferea

Liferea 1.6.3
Ubuntu 11.04 - the Natty Narwhal

What i expect to happen:
When i start Liferea i expect to see the icon in the message tray (system tray) area.

What happens:
Liferea starts, and the message tray flickers a bit (most likely trying to add the icon) but then nothing gets added.
If when i start liferea from terminal the only output is "set zoom: 1.00"
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Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
Package: liferea 1.6.3-1ubuntu4
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-28.50-generic 2.6.35.11
Tags: maverick
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-28-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

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Volodya (volodya) wrote : Dependencies.txt

apport information

tags: added: apport-collected
description: updated
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Volodya (volodya) wrote : Re: Liferea fails to create a tray icon

I have just tested it on a different Ubuntu setup. The bug is still there.

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Nicolas_Raoul (nicolas-raoul) wrote :

The tray icon does not appear even after whitelisting it and restarting:
gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Panel systray-whitelist "['all']"

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Nicolas_Raoul (nicolas-raoul) wrote :

Oh, I have found it!
It is a submenu item of the envelope-shaped tray icon.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in liferea (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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David (lofidevops) wrote :

I've updated the title to what I think the expected behaviour is.

summary: - Liferea fails to create a tray icon
+ Liferea does not appear in Messaging Menu
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David (lofidevops) wrote :

This was working for me in 13.10 with the Ubuntu Handbook PPA version. It is no longer working in 14.04 with the main repo version or the Ubuntu Handbook PPA version.

description: updated
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David (lofidevops) wrote :

Comment from upstream:

> This will be solved by removing the trayicon support and replacing it with an optional plugin that supports only GNOME classic. The user will have to manually enable it. Additionally the hiding to tray icon will be removed as this causes heavy problems with GNOME shell.
>
> Fix (removal) will be released with 1.11.0

https://github.com/lwindolf/liferea/issues/25#issuecomment-42947283

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