Scott Kitterman [2011-04-14 9:49 -0400]: > Unless it's a package developed specifically for Ubuntu, it's really not a > bug > in the package from an upstream perspective.
To the contrary. GtkStatusIcon is an official API from GTK, so people have every right to use it; we can hardly claim that it's a bug (although we have good reason to not recommend using it, of course). As I now kept saying for many times, as long as we don't get the indicator concept adopted upstream in GNOME/GTK (e. g. dropping the GtkStatusIcon in GTK 4), I don't see us having a good rationale for completely disabling them. > I doubt it's supportable to deal with Ubuntu patches for all the > relevant Universe packages. Right, but that's not even everything. We are encouraging app developers to build software for Ubuntu using Gtk or Qt, and there's a lot of third-party software which should also work well on Ubuntu as well. Why did we make a concession for Skype and Java, but not for others? Martin -- Martin Pitt | http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org) -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel