Repeated indicators in unity-2d panel when second screen added

Very important issue indeed!
Does it also happen in Unity 3D?

It does not happen in 3D.

It also happens when I switch from mirrored to not mirrored displays (2D). Probably not surprising.

Colin, do you also confirm the bug #845212 on multiple screen (2D and 3D)?

By the way I hardly understand why the panel-service (libunity-core, in fact) asks to re-add an indicator. However I guess that we can workaround this on unity-2d side, by simply checking if an indicator with that given name has been already added.

By the way, in this case which is the designed solution requested? Indicators should show on both screens, isn't it?

@Marco: I do not see the symptom in bug #845212, the menus appear on both screens as they should.

I don't know if it is relevant but looking at what happens with 3D when adding the second screen it looks as if the indicators are discarded and added again, or perhaps even the complete panel is re-generated, though I may be wrong.

I do not fully understand your last paragraph. The indicators do appear on the second screen as expected. On the first I see two of each indicator (in pairs), until I log out and back in, then I see one of each in each screen as I should.

Ahhhh... Ok. Now I can figure the problem and I already fixed it for few days, also if I didn't experience this exactly issue I also considered this aspect when killing the unity-panel-service: I'm sure that if in a terminal you run "killall -9 unity-panel-service" (in a single screen too), you get the very same problem.

The fact is that unity-2d trunk currently doesn't manage an indicator removal, but I implemented that since Sept 9th in my branch lp:~3v1n0/unity-2d/unity-core-indicators-revisited so I guess that you just need to merge this proposal to fix the issue: https://code.launchpad.net/~3v1n0/unity-2d/unity-core-indicators-revisited/+merge/74715

@Colin, if you can, please compile that branch and let me know if you still get the issue with that. Thank you.

I am not set up to build from source (though I could be if necessary) but I have moved to the unity-2d daily build ppa so can test it if the patch is included there.
If I run "killall -9 unity-panel-service" when in dual screen mode that I see repeated indicators on *both* screens.

Ok, so now (after that my branch has been merged) this should have been fixed.

Fixed for me in 4.8-0ubuntu1~bzr716 :)
Unfortunately during switching between single and dual screens to test this I have discovered a crash, bug #848944, sorry. I don't know whether this this is a new bug or not.

Thanks for the feedback Colin!

This bug was fixed in the package unity-2d - 4.8.0-0ubuntu1

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