recent-notifications

Disable the indicator for some users

Bug #1128516 reported by Juan Simón on 2013-02-17

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	recent-notifications	Fix Released	Wishlist	Jason Conti

Bug Description

Actually this indicator is load for all users. It would be very recommendable to change this behavior. The indicator should be loaded required by the user like other indicators that it loads with a .desktop file in autostart folder.
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ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu10
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-02-11 (6 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5)
MarkForUpload: True
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: indicator-notifications 0.2.4-0~ppa~quantal [origin: LP-PPA-jconti-recent-notifications]
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=es_ES.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
Tags: third-party-packages quantal running-unity
Uname: Linux 3.7.0-20130215-i7 x86_64
UnreportableReason: Este no es un paquete oficial de Ubuntu. Desinstale cualquier paquete de terceros e inténtelo de nuevo.
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin nopasswdlogin plugdev sambashare sudo users

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lp:~jconti/recent-notifications/ppa-indicator

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Juan Simón (simonbcn) wrote on 2013-02-17: Dependencies.txt

Dependencies.txt Edit (5.3 KiB, text/plain)

apport information

tags:	added: apport-collected quantal running-unity third-party-packages
description:	updated

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Jason Conti (jconti) wrote on 2013-02-18:

The indicators that load with a .desktop file are AppIndicators. indicator-notifications is not an AppIndicator, and so is either always there, or not, by design of the panel-service. It cannot be an AppIndicator because they strip off markup and formatting from menu items, so it would be impossible to properly display the notifications (which annoys me because it would have been much more simple as an AppIndicator).

As I said in the email, it would be possible to add a setting to hide the indicator. This is all that can be done without redesigning the panel-service.

Changed in recent-notifications:
status:	New → Triaged
importance:	Undecided → Low
importance:	Low → Wishlist
assignee:	nobody → Jason Conti (jconti)

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Jason Conti (jconti) wrote on 2013-02-18:

Fixed in version 0.2.5:

indicator-notifications (0.2.5-0~ppa~quantal) quantal; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
    - Add GSettings support:
      + "hide-indicator" - show/hide the indicator (LP: #1128516)
      + "max-items" - maximum number of notifications to display
  * debian/patches/eavesdrop-on-bus.patch:
    - Dropped, included upstream.
-- Jason Conti <email address hidden> Sun, 17 Feb 2013 22:52:59 -0500

Should build and be available on the PPA in a couple of hours. You can hide the indicator with:

gsettings set net.launchpad.indicator.notifications hide-indicator true

and show it again by replacing true with false.