Gmail Webapps and 13.10 - Unity and Message Me Menu Integration
I've just installed 13.10 and while I was using Firefox, the system prompted me to install the webapps for sites like Gmail, Facebook, Launchpad, and so on.
What happens is that, after the first moment of the installation, the Unity icon that appear for Gmail app remains as only an icon that opens another window directly into Gmail. Before, there was an integration with Unity because when clicking the icon it directed me to the tab where Gmail was opened in Firefox.
Besides the Unity integration there's the message menu integration. With Facebook app, I receive notifications on the Me Menu near the watch whenever someone sends a message, but with Gmail it's null, it doesn't even appear in the Me Menu. It happens with Firefox and Chrome.
Any clues?
Solution 1:
This bug was already pointed out in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-webapps-gmail/+bug/1245027/comments/11
In order to solve it, you have to install the package available here: https://launchpad.net/~justinmcp/+archive/webapps-ppa. More precisely:
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to add ppa:justinmcp/webapps-ppa to your system's Software Sources, open a terminal and enter:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:justinmcp/webapps-ppa -
to pull down the latest list of software from each archive it knows about, including the PPA ppa:justinmcp/webapps-ppa you just added:
sudo apt-get update
It works fine for me (Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy, 64-bit).
See also these questions: GMail not visible in Unity panel, ubuntu 13.10 webapps