Created attachment 131759 [details]
screencast of busted menu

Just confirming this also occurs with KDE. Any news on a fix for this, seeing as
0.2.1 has been out for a while. It's basically useless as is.

Created attachment 134605 [details]
istanbul on fc5 right-click menu working properly

A couple of things... 

As you can see in the screenshot istanbul-0.1.1-9.fc5 on my fc5 system has a
working preference menu.  Unless you can help me out by figuring out exactly
what settings on your system cause this problem I can't do much about it. It
works for me and I don't know how to reproduce it.. is it a language setting
problem... is it some package change on your system... i have no idea. What I do
know is that I can't reproduce this on my systems.  

As for 0.2.1.... 0.2.1 is NOT going to show up in fc5 due to missing
capabilities in gstreamer-plugins-good in FC5. I am working on a package right
now for fc6, but let me stress that istanbul 0.2.1 has completely new ui issues
that need to be worked on upstream with the developers. If you are interested in
working with the upstream developers, please go ahead and build 0.2.1 on your
system using the gstreamer components from fedora core development tree (as I am
doing currently) and start filing bugreports and patches with the upstream
developers. Much of istanbul's problems are not fedora package specific and need
to be addressed upstream. 

-jef

Jef,

Have you tried putting your notification area on the bottom panel?

The good news... I can confirm that using the notification area on the bottom
panel causes the problem... so its definitely a bug.

The bad news... this isn't something I can fix at the packaging level, without
someone providing a patch.  

The darkly ironic news.... istanbul 0.2.1 does not have this problem as far as I
can tell, but istanbul 0.2.1 can not be pushed into fc5 because the gstreamer in
fc5 does not have the ncessary ximagesrc capability. The developement tree will
most likely get an 0.2.1 build soon.

Considering the choices, I'm leaving this bug report open in case someone has
time and the ability to implement a patch.. a patch that upstream may not be
that interesting in helping to create considering that the newest version of
istanbul has had a significant amount of ui rework and doesn't exhibit this
problem.  

-jef

Created attachment 134655 [details]
Call self.popupmenu.reposition() to fix context menu

Turns out the fix is easy. Just call self.popupmenu.reposition() after
self.popupmenu.show_all(). Apply this patch with -p0.

This fix works whether the notification area is on the top or bottom of the screen.

Excellent!

I'll I'll test that fix on my fc5 box here, and then I'll see if I can get that
committed into the Extras build system for a push.  You'll have to give me a
couple of days, I've moved cross-country in the last 2 months and I'm just now
getting a linux box up and running in my office at work. If you don't see an
istanbul push to fe5 by the end of the week, beat me up.

-jef

I can totally sympathize; I'm moving too and it's been "very interesting". I'll
start bugging you Friday or so.

I'm trying to get something out today... but since the last time I wrote we've 
had a major network issue at work so I'm not even sure if I'm going to be able 
to get a package out until next week and even then I might have to sucker 
another maintainer to do the commit for me.

-jef

Created attachment 135248 [details]
srpm with patched applied, please build and test.

Here is the srpm I plan to submit or have someone else submit to the FE
buildsystem as soon as its available again. My understanding is that the
buildsystem is down currently. Hopefully tomorrow I can get this submitted and
building.

-jef

Package was pushed and built in fe5, its awaiting signature. Closing as next
release, please re-open if problems linger after testing the update.

-jef