First of all I am sorry if I have missed anything similar to the problem I am having that may be elsewhere on the forum!

In Ubuntu 10.04 (and other versions) Amarok places an icon on the top task bar on the left hand side after it is installed. When you click on it creates another icon on the right hand side. This occures once Amarok is up and running! Normally if you click on the icon Amarok will ether minimize or maximize. If you hover the mouse pointer over it, it will show the artwork and the song that is playing.

My problem is that it is not doing any of this for me! If I click on it all I see is the drop down and on it I see "Amarok" (Always greyed out) on top, below that, "Previous Track" below that, "Play/Pause" below that, "Stop" below that,"Next Track" below that, "Add Position Marker" below that, "Restore" and last, below that, "Quit"

Please if anyone can help with this I would be very, very grateful indeed!

Piers

Edit: The application broke after a 10.04 update at some point or another, I think! I also forgot to add that I did use synaptic to do a complete removal and then reinstalled it but that also did not help! Short of doing a complete OS reinstall and then reinstalling the thing... I really do not want to do that, I am sure that this rational makes sense to the people here! Thanks again.

Please close Amarok, and run the following in a terminal: "kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental"

OK I have done that. Anything else I should do? Thank you!

Well I ran what you suggested and nothing has changed. Must I run the command as root or does that not matter?

So far no change to the problem.It's still exactly the same.

That command is intended to be run as the user who runs Amarok ( ie. your normal user account )

This potentially could be a bug in GNOME's implementation of the new System Tray standard, as it works fine here in KDE. Please file a bug with your distribution ( the GNOME System Tray component ) so they can correct their packages.

Thank you, I appreciate your help. It is not that I cannot use the player but I am a bit of a stickler as regards EVERYTHING working 100%.

All the best!

Piers

I have filed a full bug report with Ubuntu and if and when I get any response I will let you guys know! Cheers!

Piers wrote:I have filed a full bug report with Ubuntu and if and when I get any response I will let you guys know! Cheers!

You didn't say what you filed the bug against, it does look to me like the indicator applet on the Gnome panel is having issues with the way it displays some KDE stuff, as opposed to something Amarok is doing.

Depending on what the actual problem is it may or may not be something that gets fixed in Lucid, the indicator stuff is still a bit of a work in progress.

It may be one of those situations where you just have to choose what you want more, having the stuff in the notification area work that doesn't work right when the indicator applet is enabled or having the indicator stuff.

If you right click where the indicators are showing and choose to remove from the panel, then log out and log in again, stuff should revert to using the notification area, but you lose some of the stuff that was designed specifically to work with the indicator applet, volume icon, mail notification, not completely sure about the 'me menu', but I think you lose that too. Then for those things for which a normal panel applet equivalent exists, you have to add them back in.

If you remove the indicator applet from the panel and later decide you want it back, just add the indicator applet back in like you would any other panel app and all the same indicator stuff should be displayed again.

Later, Seeker