[Suggestion] Use Appindicator instead of own tray icon implementation about unite-shell HOT 6 CLOSED

There also seem to be efforts making libappindicator available outside Ubuntu so other Distros can use it as wel

It has been available on nearly every mainstream distro for many years. The problem isn't that it isn't packaged the problem is there is no upstream development.

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Hi @mrprobot, @TingPing. I'm planning to remove the tray icon implementation when GNOME drops support.

For now, you can disable it from the settings and use the appindicators extension.

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I'm planning to remove the tray icon implementation when GNOME drops support.

That happened a year ago.

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Not yet:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/blob/master/src/shell-tray-manager.c
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/blob/master/src/shell-tray-icon.c

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Code may be there, but GNOME 3.26 disabled it and 3.30 is about to release. So it has been gone for nearly a year.

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Well then I will drop support when the code is not there anymore.
That code (tray manager) is used to implement the tray icons https://github.com/hardpixel/unite-shell/blob/master/unite%40hardpixel.eu/modules/topIcons.js#L38.

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