Notifications not showing, when applet is disabled

[Hendrik Rosendahl <hendrik rosendahl rwth-aachen de>]

Hi everyone,

I noticed, that no notification is displayed, if the applet is disabled by the gsettings.

How to reproduce:

1. Start nm-applet, if it isn't already
2. Make sure, that you get a notification, when interacting with NetworkManager (e.g. connecting to a network)
3. Execute gsettings set org.gnome.nm-applet show-applet 'false'
4. Interact with NetworkManager (e.g. through nmtui) to repeat the steps in 1.
5. Notice, that there is no notification shown

What I expected:
As the option only says "show-applet", we should still see the notifications.

Solution?
I had a look at the source and with this diff I could produce the expected behavior:

diff --git a/src/applet.c b/src/applet.c
index 81e2ac5..7d411c7 100644
--- a/src/applet.c
+++ b/src/applet.c
@@ -884,9 +884,6 @@ applet_do_notify (NMApplet *applet,
        g_return_if_fail (summary != NULL);
        g_return_if_fail (message != NULL);
 
-       if (!gtk_status_icon_is_embedded (applet->status_icon))
-               return;
-
        /* if we're not acting as a secret agent, don't notify either */
        if (!applet->agent)
                return;

It is running on my system right now, but I don't know if this breaks anything else.
The originating commit b74deac92d8192591ddbb62f2e2b1b7101a5e95d doesn't say why the notification shouldn't be shown, if the applet isn't visible. But in my opinion it doesn't make sense to not show the notification, only because the applet isn't shown. Additionally we now have the gsettings to control what should be shown, which wasn't the case when this commit was made, as far as I can tell.

Please excuse any formal mistakes I made, as it is my first time using a mailing list.

Hendrik

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