Hello everyone, One of the achievements of Unity was that it pushed software vendors to adopt Appindicators for their software, such as Skype and Dropbox. Appindicators give a more consistent and better looking experience to the desktop than legacy tray icons.
GNOME Shell, by default, positions tray icons at the bottom-left corner and hides them. The shell developers may want to push software vendors to provide native shell extensions of their applications instead of tray icons or appindicators. GPaste does that (1). It provides a native gnome-shell extension; in Debian (2). There is a shell extension (gnome-shell-extension-appindicator), which integrates Ubuntu AppIndicators and KStatusNotifierItems (KDE's successor of the systray) into GNOME Shell (3). There is also another extension (TopIcons-plus), which brings legacy tray icons to the top panel (4). I tried both extensions and I found that the appindicator extension gives a better looking experience. What will be the situation of Ubuntu desktop regarding that? Would Ubuntu follow upstream GNOME Shell, or choose an extension by default? Regards, Amr (1) https://github.com/Keruspe/GPaste (2) https://packages.debian.org/unstable/gnome-shell-extensions-gpaste (3) https://github.com/rgcjonas/gnome-shell-extension-appindicator (4) https://github.com/phocean/TopIcons-plus -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
