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[Locked] Notification area won't display plain text. [Bug #287]
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07 June 2013 à 01:54

Guest, Thursday 12 July 2012 à 17:49

Hi there.
I try to use indicator-sensors to display temperature of my hardware. But in notification area I can only see symbols but there is no text with the value. I have also the same problem with indicator-sysmonitor witch should display cpu and ram usage as plain text. Both indicators could be found here:

http://www.upubuntu.com/2012/05/list-of-22-application-indicators-for.html

So is this an known problem? Are there any workarounds?

Bye

PS: I use Ubuntu 12.04 and the last Cairo-Dock-3.0.2 from PPA in a Cairo-Dock session with effects (Compiz).

matttbe, Thursday 12 July 2012 à 19:00


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Hello,

Do you have this problem?
http://uppix.net/7/4/4/5faa54d41169abdaddfec60169a73.png


If yes, it's due to your theme. Please post a new comment on this bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/light-themes/+bug/968133 (it's really sad that there is no answer from ligth-themes' devs... )
But there is a workaround by installing this package: https://launchpad.net/~matttbe/+archive/ppa/+files/light-themes_0.1.9.2-0ubuntu3%7Eprecise_all.deb

Guest, Thursday 12 July 2012 à 19:59

Hi mattibe and thank you for your quick response.
No I have another problem. My problem is there is no text(with value)next to the icon in the notification area. I see only the icon.

matttbe, Friday 13 July 2012 à 01:07


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Ok, I think this text is available on the label of the icon (when your mouse is above this applet).

Guest, Friday 13 July 2012 à 13:16

Here I've made a picture to demonstrate my problem:

http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/9871/cairoandunity.png

matttbe, Friday 13 July 2012 à 14:04


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Yes but currently, this value should be displayed on the icon's label:
http://uppix.net/0/c/8/f4fff8b7474ff40af55df6c01a3ee.png


In fact, you should see the "accessible description" (e.g. with Network Manager: "Connected to the network XXX") or the label if the previous is not available (e.g. with your applet: "48,5°C") or the title (e.g. with Dropbox: "dropbox"). But only on the label and not on the dock.
Do you think this information has to be always visible (and take a few pixels in the dock)? There is an icon to show an approximation.

Guest, Friday 13 July 2012 à 17:05

Sorry for my confusion, but I thought an indicator applet should look the same regardless of which panel I use.

Do you think this information has to be always visible (and take a few pixels in the dock)? There is an icon to show an approximation.


Yes I want this information to be always visible and take a few pixels in the dock. How can I get this?
Thank you in advance.

fabounet, Monday 16 July 2012 à 16:58


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Sorry for my confusion, but I thought an indicator applet should look the same regardless of which panel I use.

well the information are the same, but the representation can differ.
In our case, the information is displayed in the icon's label (can you confirm ?), not directly on the icon.
now, I'm not sure how the gnome-panel decides what information to display (maybe that's the difference between title and "accessible description", the doc probably tells that).

However, I'm glad to see that these Ubuntu indicators work out of the box in Cairo-Dock

Guest, Tuesday 17 July 2012 à 10:06

Hello fabounet,
thank you for your reply and some clarification. I made a screenshot of the icon's label:

http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/1669/cairopanel.png

"temp2" which you see in the label is the name of the sensor for my CPU. So it is the right direction but not perfect
Hope you can tweak it a bit.

Thank you and have a nice day.

matttbe, Tuesday 17 July 2012 à 10:56


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Ok. Maybe we can display the "label" first. Or we can display all entries if it's possible
(e.g.Title
Label
Accessible description)

fabounet, Wednesday 18 July 2012 à 13:03


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yep, we need to see what that would look like

but I think that there is probably a way to know which info should be displayed where (maybe a hint in the API ?)
"temp2" is not a bad information to have (at least for a geek ^^), but definitely not veru useful compared to the actual temperature

matttbe, Wednesday 18 July 2012 à 22:37


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What do you think about that:

http://uppix.net/a/4/0/06c0233c7cc731f26228281f3db3a.png


It displays the title, the label and the description. It's just too bad that the description only contains 'Core 0' but I guess we can contact the dev to change that
Maybe it can be interesting to add an option to display the label on the icon (quick-info) but it's currently not possible because we have one big icon with all "indicator" icons
@ fabounet: maybe is it maybe to split this big icon?

Guest, Thursday 19 July 2012 à 11:43

Hi and thank you guys for your attention on my problem.
I made some further investigations and tried this applet with gnome-fallback-panel and xfce4-panel (with xfce4-indicator-plugin) and in both cases I got the same behavior like on unity-panel witch you can see in the picture in my third post. So I think why not to implement this behavior also in cairo-dock instead to have something own. Maybe we could have an additional plugin for cairo-dock, something like "ubuntu-indicator-plugin"?
Here you can find such plugin (source code and more info) for xfce4-panel: http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/panel-plugins/xfce4-indicator-plugin it is small and works well.

Incidentally: are there any quick and dirty solutions for my problem? Because now in summer it is very hot in my room and have to keep an eye on my CPU-temperature.

matttbe, Thursday 19 July 2012 à 13:29


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For me, the problem is that with Cairo-Dock, we have 'docks' and not 'panels': we have icons and not areas of widget.
Of course, we can draw anything in the dock but for me, it's a bit different.
@ fabounet: or we can draw text like Clock applet does, no?

BTW, if you want to test the new changes, simply add our 'Weekly ppa' and wait for the next update

Guest, Thursday 19 July 2012 à 16:14

Wow cool Matthieu I have not noticed that you have already implement something. Thank you!
How can I compile the source to test it? Can I compile only the new applet and use it with Cairo-Dock 3.0.2?

matttbe, Thursday 19 July 2012 à 16:36


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If you're using Ubuntu, simply add our 'Weekly ppa', the new update (with this modification) should be available next hours



PS: But you can also recompile this plug-in with this patch: https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~cairo-dock-team/cairo-dock-plug-ins/plug-ins/revision/2472
but it's much more easier and quicker to use the ppa -> you can also easily revert back to the previous version but don't hesitate to report any bugs to help improving Cairo-Dock

Guest, Friday 20 July 2012 à 10:35

Ok thanks Matthieu and weekly ppa repo I could test the new notification area. Here is a new screenshot i've made:

http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/1669/cairopanel.png

you can see there is a problem with multible rows. Is this only on my system?

The good news is that I finally can see the temperature value yeeeeeeh but I hoped it gives an option to set the value to make it permanent visible. Something like "show label in notification area". Maybe someone of you guys can make it true.

matttbe, Friday 20 July 2012 à 10:49


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Guest :
you can see there is a problem with multible rows
yes, currently it's not possible to see all rows with non small fonts

Maybe we should place this text on only one row.

@fabounet: an idea?

Guest, Friday 20 July 2012 à 11:13

Wow, this i call quick response
I just downloaded "cairo-dock-plugins-3.0.2.tar.gz" tarball and found there a folder "Indicator-applet" is this an equivalent plugin to "xfce4-indicator-plugin" or is this something else?

matttbe, Friday 20 July 2012 à 11:46


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I just downloaded "cairo-dock-plugins-3.0.2.tar.gz" tarball and found there a folder "Indicator-applet" is this an equivalent plugin to "xfce4-indicator-plugin" or is this something else?
No, it's a static library used by all our 'indicator' applets (Messaging Menu, Status Notifier, Sound-Control, etc.). It's simply to not copy the same code on all these applet to be connected to the indicator daemons

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