Bug#352134: Can't restore gossip from notification-icon state without a notification area

[Sam Morris]

Package: gossip
Version: 0.9-1.1
Severity: normal

I normally hide the gossip window by clicking on its icon in the
notification area. However right now I am unable to log into Gnome, and
have fallen back to twm. In twm, and presumably other window managers
that do not provide a notification area, there is no way to get the
gossip window back!

I worked around the problem by unsetting
/apps/gossip/ui/main_window_hidden in gconf-editor; however I had to
restart gossip for this to take effect. IMO gossip should ignore this
setting entirely if there is no notification for it to place its icon
in.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (530, 'testing'), (520, 'unstable'), (510, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-k7
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages gossip depends on:
ii  gconf2                 2.12.1-8          GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libaspell15            0.60.4-3          GNU Aspell spell-checker runtime l
ii  libc6                  2.3.5-8           GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgconf2-4            2.12.1-8          GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0            1:2.5.1-2         library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.8.6-1           The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0            2.12.0.1-5        The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomeui-0           2.12.0-2          The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0         2.12.2-5          GNOME virtual file-system (runtime
ii  libgtk2.0-0            2.8.10-1          The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libloudmouth1-0        1.0.1-4           Lightweight C Jabber library
ii  libpango1.0-0          1.10.2-1          Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0               1.7-5             lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libx11-6               6.9.0.dfsg.1-4    X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxext6               6.9.0.dfsg.1-4    X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii  libxml2                2.6.23.dfsg.1-0.1 GNOME XML library
ii  libxslt1.1             1.1.15-2          XSLT processing library - runtime 
ii  xlibs                  6.9.0.dfsg.1-4    X Window System client libraries m

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