[Pkg-ayatana-devel] Bug#900080: ayatana-indicator-application: Installing ayatana-indicator-application in stretch causes tray icons to disappear

[Daniel Gnoutcheff]

Package: ayatana-indicator-application
Version: 0.5.2-1~bpo9+1
Severity: normal

If ayatana-indicator-application is installed from stretch-backports,
some applications (Remmina, Blink) whose tray icons would otherwise work
under Xfce no longer appear.

To reproduce, in detail:

- On a fresh stretch install, log into an Xfce desktop, enable
  backports, and install remmina.  (Assuming Install-Recommends is left
  on, this pulls in ayatana-indicator-application.)

- Without logging out, start remmina.  Observe that it has a tray icon.

- Now log out, log back in, and start remmina again.  Observe that
  the tray icon is gone.

- killall ayatana-indicator-application-service and restart remmina.
  Observe that the tray icon is back.

Affected applications (that I know of):

- Remmina (as used in the reproducer procedure)
- blink-qt (http://icanblink.com/, not in Debian)

xfce4-indicator-plugin (from stretch) does not seem to help.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.4
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages ayatana-indicator-application depends on:
ii  ayatana-indicator-common    0.6.1-1~bpo9+1
ii  libatk1.0-0                 2.22.0-1
ii  libayatana-appindicator3-1  0.5.2-1~bpo9+1
ii  libayatana-indicator3-7     0.6.1-1~bpo9+1
ii  libc6                       2.24-11+deb9u3
ii  libcairo-gobject2           1.14.8-1
ii  libcairo2                   1.14.8-1
ii  libdbus-1-3                 1.10.26-0+deb9u1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2            0.108-2
ii  libdbusmenu-glib4           12.10.2-2
ii  libdbusmenu-gtk3-4          12.10.2-2
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0          2.36.5-2+deb9u2
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.50.3-2
ii  libgtk-3-0                  3.22.11-1
ii  libjson-glib-1.0-0          1.2.6-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0              1.40.5-1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0         1.40.5-1

ayatana-indicator-application recommends no packages.

ayatana-indicator-application suggests no packages.

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