[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#880169: Please enable Indicator support and build against Ayatana Indicators

[Mike Gabriel]

Hi Michael,

On  So 08 Apr 2018 16:30:06 UTC, Michael Biebl wrote:

> On Mon, 30 Oct 2017 10:36:23 +0100 Mike Gabriel
> <mike.gabriel at das-netzwerkteam.de> wrote:
>> Source: network-manager-applet
>> Version: 1.8.4-1
>> Severity: wishlist
>> Tags: upstream patch
>> User: pkg-ayatana-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org
>> Usertags: ayatanaindicators
>>
>> Dear maintainer,
>>
>> attached you find a .debdiff that enables Indicator support in Network
>> Manager Applet (GNOME) on Debian.
>>
>> The Debian + Ubuntu MATE Packaging Team are currently working on porting
>> Ubuntu Indicators to a distro-independent state. This is done under a new
>> upstream umbrella (https://github.com/AyatanaIndicators).
>>
>> For Network Manager Applet (GNOME), we would love to see Indicator
>> support being enabled on Debian systems. As the Ubuntu Indicators in
>> Debian are severely unmaintained, please switch to Ayatana Indicators
>> when enabling Indicator support for your package.
>>
>> A Network Manager Applet that has been built against Ayatana Indicators will
>> also work as-is on top of Ubuntu Indicators as found in Ubuntu.
>
> Would you consider forwarding this request upstream?
> I don't really want to maintain this as a downstream patch.

Sure, I can do that. In fact, my bug report has two parts: enable  
AppIndicator support and switch over from Ubuntu AppIndicator to  
Ayatana AppIndicator.

Don't expect any more work on that before the 16th Apr, I am currently  
on garden VAC.

Applications that support AppIndicator / SNI will enhance multiple  
desktops: Kde5, Gnome (with extension), Budgie, MATE, Xfce. LXQt is  
currently looking into SNI support, too.

So, application indicators are more commonly spread than system  
indicators. Network Manager Applet is in the realm of applicatipn  
indicators.

The system indicators (sound, session, datetime, keyboard, etc.) can  
enhance MATE, XFCE and Budgie for now. LXQt people are looking into  
that, too, afaih. Unity7 can't work without system indicators. The  
people from UBports (Unity8) also rely on system indicators. In  
Unity8, a switch to Ayatana Indicators is under investigation.

> That aside, which desktops in Debian would benefit from Ayatana
> Indicators support?

Answered above...

> Regards,
> Michael

Greets,
Mike
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