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

[Mike Gabriel]

Control: forwarded -1 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=795333

Hi Michael,

On  So 08 Apr 2018 18:30:06 CEST, 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.
>
> That aside, which desktops in Debian would benefit from Ayatana
> Indicators support?
>
> Regards,
> Michael

Forwarded upstream with a patch rebased against master HEAD of  
network-manager-applet as found on git.gnome.org.

Thanks+Greets,
Mike
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