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

[Mike Gabriel]

Hi,

On  Fr 20 Apr 2018 11:13:55 CEST, Michael Biebl wrote:

> Am 20.04.2018 um 10:59 schrieb Mike Gabriel:
>> Control: tags -1 fixed-upstream
>>
>> Hi Michael,
>>
>> On  Mi 18 Apr 2018 19:47:31 CEST, Michael Biebl wrote:
>>
>>> Am 17.04.2018 um 16:57 schrieb Mike Gabriel:
>>>> Forwarded upstream with a patch rebased against master HEAD of
>>>> network-manager-applet as found on git.gnome.org.
>>>
>>> Thanks, Mike.
>>
>> Michael, do you think you can cherry-pick the two commits from upstream
>> with one of the next nm-applet uploads?
>>
>> Context: the Arctica Greeter (src:arctica-greeter) that I also maintain
>> and develop upstream looks so much smarter with nm-applet --indicator
>> available in Debian.
>
> Is there some way I can test that the indicator works?
> I just setup a test VM with MATE and installed mate-indicator-applet and
> added the Notification applet to the panel, but that doesn't seem to
> have any effect. If I recompile nm-applet with the patches applied and
> start nm-applet, it doesn't seem to show up in the panel notifications
> applet.
>
> Regards,
> Michael

The easiest way is: install arctica-greeter. It launches nm-applet  
--indicator in background and it should then appear in the indicator  
area (top right).

The other test approach is:

  * MATE
  * add mate-indicator-applet and add it to the panel
  * install ayatana-indicator-application
  * and -sesion, -power, -notifications, -printers, etc. (if you like)

Similar with XFCE and xfce4-indicator-plugin.

Note that AppIndicator applications only appear with those plugins if  
ayatana-indicator-application is installed and launched (via XDG) in  
background on session startup.

Note, that nm-applet defaults to Xembed and needs --indicator as  
cmdline option to switch over to AppIndicator mode.

Mike
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