Banshee notification icon sometimes appears with label "notify-sharp" under gnome-shell

Here are instructions to reproduce this:

1. Start Banshee: the label in the gnome-shell "notification area" (at the bottom right of the screen), should read "Banshee".
2. Now play a tune, minimize it and click on fast forward/next key on the keyboard to get to the next tune (or wait for it): the you should see the regular gnome-shell notification announcing the tune, at the bottom centre, and, if you get to the notification area, the label for the Banshee icon should read "notifcation-sharp".

As it may be an upstream bug, I have reported it here: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=656533

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

When you click on the Notify-Sharp icon it brings up a new Banshee icon, and each of them have different right-click menus. I took 2 screenshots to demonstrate.

On Ubuntu Oneiric, please try installing the libnotify0.4-cil package from https://launchpad.net/~hyperair/+archive/staging/+packages, then restart Banshee and see if that solves the issue.

This bug was fixed in the package banshee - 2.3.1-1ubuntu1

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banshee (2.3.1-1ubuntu1) precise; urgency=low

  * Merge from Debian Experimental, remaining changes:
    + Enable SoundMenu and Disable NotificationArea by default
    + Disable boo and karma extensions
    + Enable and recommnd u1ms and soundmenu extensions
    + Move desktop file for Meego UI to /usr/share/une/applications
    + Change the url for the Amazon store redirector
    + [08dea2c] Revert "Fix invalid cast causing ftbfs with libgpod"

banshee (2.3.1-1) experimental; urgency=low

  * [1b4437e] Bump libgpod-cil-dev build-dep version
  * [fb16a3c] Imported Upstream version 2.3.1:
    + Enhancements:
      - Several improvements to Muinshee, our alternative UI:
        + Add a Clear button to the toolba
        + Make double+click on an album do the same as the Play button
        + Don't close the dialog when pressing Enqueue
        + Make the Esc key close the dialog if there is no search text
        + Use better icons for the Play and Enqueue buttons
      - Add separate options for writing ratings and play counts to files
      - Update values for the Smiley Face equalizer preset
      - Set the PulseAudio media.role property
    + Notable bug fixes:
      - UbuntuOneMusicStore: Ensure u1ms URIs passed at startup get loaded
      - Daap: Fix crash while resolving the address of a DAAP service
      - DatabaseImportManager: Support importing .mka files
      - Notify playlists on rating change through d-bus or command line
      - bgo#661467: AmazonMp3: Handle plain text AMZ files now sent by Amazon
        (LP: #882347)
      - bgo#662906: AudiobookLibrarySource: Fix crash when adding tracks
      - bgo#659841: GnomeBackend: Be more robust against GConf failures
        (LP: #854845)
      - bgo#656533: Notification: Fix application name used in internal notify#
        (LP: #825769)
      - bgo#649277: NotificationArea: Only use supported tags in the
        notification message (Closes: #588999)
      - bgo#647898: Try to fetch coverart without an internet connection
      - bgo#658803: Prune CoverArtDownloads table when removing tracks
    + Other LP bugs fixed:
      - Crash on rescanning library (LP: #744257)
      - UbuntuOne Music Store hang when Internet connection not present
        (LP: #875632)
      - Update error message for Banshee DAAP non-connectivity (LP: #864838)
      - bgo#661467: AmazonMp3: Handle plain text AMZ files now sent by Amazon
        (LP: #882347)
  * [e180004] Bump mono-addins build-dep (0.3.1 → 0.6.2)
  * [6dc2a9b] Fix unused-but-set wanted_size variable
 -- Chow Loong Jin <email address hidden> Tue, 08 Nov 2011 13:15:58 +0800

Hello mlaverdiere, or anyone else affected,

Accepted banshee into oneiric-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

Still waiting for Banshee 2.3 package to come up on oneiric-proposed... (actual available version is 2.2.1)

On 14/11/2011 00:00, mlaverdiere wrote:
> Still waiting for Banshee 2.3 package to come up on oneiric-proposed...
> (actual available version is 2.2.1)
>
2.3 is an unstable version and will not be landing in oneiric-proposed.

--
Kind regards,
Loong Jin

Ah, I see the source of the confusion. Banshee has an internal notify-sharp copy that it does not use when we build it on Debian and Ubuntu. It instead uses the system notify-sharp, and hence will not be fixed by this upload. We'll need a new notify-sharp upload for that. I'm setting the Banshee task back to invalid.

This bug was fixed in the package notify-sharp - 0.4.0~r3032-4

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notify-sharp (0.4.0~r3032-4) unstable; urgency=low

  * [4ecdc40] Refresh 03-use-dbus.patch
  * [f647f18] Fix app_name derivation issue (LP: #825769)
  * [96550ea] No-change Standards-Version bump (3.9.1 → 3.9.2)
  * [47c2cb9] Fix typo: This packages -> This package (Closes: #557698)

 -- Chow Loong Jin <email address hidden> Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:29:56 +0800

There's a notify-sharp upload waiting in the sponsoring queue for oneiric-proposed fixing this bug.

Ok. The notify-sharp patch looks obviously-safe; otherwise, I'm not convinced this would qualify for an SRU.

Hello mlaverdiere, or anyone else affected,

Accepted notify-sharp into oneiric-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

Works for me based on dbus-monitor output. "Banshee" is sent instead of "notify-sharp" in the org.freedesktop.Notifications.Notify call.

This bug was fixed in the package banshee - 2.2.1-1ubuntu1

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banshee (2.2.1-1ubuntu1) oneiric-proposed; urgency=low

  * Merge from Debian Unstable, remaining changes:
    + Enable SoundMenu and Disable NotificationArea by default
    + Disable boo and karma extensions
    + Enable and recommnd u1ms and soundmenu extensions
    + Move desktop file for Meego UI to /usr/share/une/applications
    + Change the url for the Amazon store redirector
    + [08dea2c] Revert "Fix invalid cast causing ftbfs with libgpod"

banshee (2.2.1-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * [1b4437e] Bump libgpod-cil-dev build-dep version
  * [cbddc03] Imported Upstream version 2.2.1:
    + Notable bug fixes:
      - bgo#661467: AmazonMp3: Handle plain text AMZ files now sent by Amazon
        (LP: #882347)
      - UbuntuOneMusicStore: Ensure u1ms URIs passed at startup get loaded
      - Daap: Fix crash while resolving the address of a DAAP service
      - DatabaseImportManager: Support importing .mka files
      - bgo#662906: AudiobookLibrarySource: Fix crash when adding tracks
      - bgo#659841: GnomeBackend: Be more robust against GConf failures
        (LP: #854845)
      - bgo#656533: Notification: Fix application name used in internal notify#
        (LP: #825769)
      - bgo#649277: NotificationArea: Only use supported tags in the
        notification message (Closes: #588999)
    + Other Launchpad bugs fixed:
      - Crash on rescanning library (LP: #744257)
      - UbuntuOne Music Store hang when Internet connection not present
        (LP: #875632)
      - Update error message for Banshee DAAP non-connectivity (LP: #864838)
  * [2cbb9a0] Fix unused-but-set wanted_size variable
 -- Chow Loong Jin <email address hidden> Thu, 03 Nov 2011 10:15:09 +0800

This bug was fixed in the package notify-sharp - 0.4.0~r3032-4~ubuntu0.1

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notify-sharp (0.4.0~r3032-4~ubuntu0.1) oneiric-proposed; urgency=low

  * Backport fix to oneiric-proposed

notify-sharp (0.4.0~r3032-4) unstable; urgency=low

  * [4ecdc40] Refresh 03-use-dbus.patch
  * [f647f18] Fix app_name derivation issue (LP: #825769)
  * [96550ea] No-change Standards-Version bump (3.9.1 → 3.9.2)
  * [47c2cb9] Fix typo: This packages -> This package (Closes: #557698)
 -- Chow Loong Jin <email address hidden> Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:16:49 +0800