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[Tony Willoughby <tonyw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Elliot Murphy wrote:
> On 08/22/2009 07:30 PM, Johan van Dijk wrote:
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> > Hi Elliot,
> >
> > Are you sure that the instructions are correct? If they are correct, I
> > might have a strange situation on my computer.
> > The ubuntuone-client-gnome package was installed, but
> > ubuntuone-storage-protocol wasn't.
>
> Oops, I made a mistake with the name of the protocol package.
>
> > And another "me too" on the disappearing ubuntuone applet from the
> > notification area...
> >
> > I removed all ubuntuone packages I could find, and after that ran a
> > "sudo apt-get autoremove" to clear other unused packages.
> > Then I installed ubuntuone-client-gnome.
> >
> > And still, ubuntuone-storage-protocol is not installed.
> > Instead, python-ubuntuone-storageprotocol is installed.
> >
> > What's the difference between these 2 packages and which one should I
> > install?
>
> It was my mistake, python-ubuntuone-storage-protocol is the one that 
> should be installed, and it should be automatically pulled in when you 
> install ubuntuone-client-gnome.
>
> > And another question: I have the ubuntuone-ppa-beta package installed,
> > but there's also a ubuntuone-ppa package.
> > Do I have the correct package?
> >
> > Finally, if I do have the correct packages, how can I help to find the
> > reason behind the disappearing applet?
>
> The disappearing applet is expected behavior right now, and we'll be 
> improving it. It's startling to see the applet go away shortly after 
> startup, and we've got a design to try and make it more obvious to the 
> user what is happening so that you can feel confident that the system is 
> working properly rather than wondering if it crashed. Many of the beta 
> testers are reporting that the applet crashed, when really it only hid 
> itself because it was idle.



Just to be clear, I experienced a crash.  The crash application started 
by itself and brought me to the bug tracking website.



> You can have a look at this page to see the new design for using 
> notifications and when the icon will show and hide itself:
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOne/KarmicClient#Karmic%20Interface%20Overview 

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