Thanks Ajay, this patch works well. I just have one comment, when the messages are not displayed the icon-frame shows a blank space. This patch will be included in dx3? cheers, Esteban. <div class="gmail_quote"> 2011/12/21 Ajay Garg <<a href="mailto:ajay@activitycentral.com">ajay@activitycentral.com</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Issue: ------ Originally discussed at : <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/dextrose/2011-August/001340.html" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/dextrose/2011-August/001340.html</a> and catched by Esteban Bordón, the issue is that whenever (and not just at startup) any notification-messages are displayed, any Activity-icon (and not just the Journal-Activity icon) is not displayed in the top-panel-frame. Technical history/details, plus the fix : ----------------------------------------- The mesh-, group-, home-, and activity-zoom buttons are a group of radiobuttons; only one may be visibly-active at a time (this is highlighted by the white-background of the corresponding selected zoom-button). Please see: "src/jarabe/frame/zoomtoolbar.py" for code-details. Similarly, all the opened activity-instances are shown by a yet another group of radiobuttons; the selected activity being highlighed by the corresponding selected activity-icon-button. Now, what was happening, was that the notification-message-icon was being added into the Activities-Tray (the second group of radiobuttons as discussed above); but any further activity-icons were not being added into the tray, because the notification-message-icon did not respect the semantics of the activity-icons. Hence, the notification-message-icon, and any other activity-icon (including Journal-activity icon) were not being made a part of the same group. Thus, the fix is that now the notification-message-icon, goes into a third tray, in the top-panel-frame. This third tray, is actually a simple gtk.HBox, with size equal to 1 grid. Please see: "src/jarabe/frame/frame.py" "src/jarabe/frame/activitiestray.py" for code-details. Signed-off-by: Ajay Garg <<a href="mailto:ajay@activitycentral.com">ajay@activitycentral.com</a>> --- src/jarabe/frame/frame.py | 10 ++++++++-- 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/jarabe/frame/frame.py b/src/jarabe/frame/frame.py index cd1dc20..fbf45fc 100644 --- a/src/jarabe/frame/frame.py +++ b/src/jarabe/frame/frame.py @@ -195,6 +195,12 @@ class Frame(object): box_width=4 * style.GRID_CELL_SIZE)) zoom_toolbar.show() + message_tray = gtk.HBox() + panel.append(hippo.CanvasWidget(widget=message_tray, + box_width=1 * style.GRID_CELL_SIZE)) + message_tray.show() + self._message_tray = message_tray + activities_tray = ActivitiesTray() panel.append(hippo.CanvasWidget(widget=activities_tray), hippo.PACK_EXPAND) @@ -321,7 +327,7 @@ class Frame(object): elif corner == gtk.CORNER_TOP_RIGHT: self._friends_tray.add_item(button) else: - self._activities_tray.add_item(button) + self._message_tray.add(button) def _remove_message_button(self, button, corner): if corner == gtk.CORNER_BOTTOM_RIGHT: @@ -329,7 +335,7 @@ class Frame(object): elif corner == gtk.CORNER_TOP_RIGHT: self._friends_tray.remove_item(button) else: - self._activities_tray.remove_item(button) + self._message_tray.remove(button) def _launch_notification_icon(self, icon_name, xo_color, position, duration): -- 1.7.4.4 </blockquote></div>