New Unity, whitelist disabled = bad

[EgoGratis]

I do understand the frustration of not having the indicator for some apps anymore and i do understand the fact the window to add indicator support was wide. Probably the remaining apps need some "push" and i guess this "push" has come...

P.S. We must admit indicators in Ubuntu are quite consistent ATM!

[cariboo]

You have to wonder why the creators of applications that don't work with app-indicator haven't updated yet, they've had 3 years notice. Most of them have gone to the trouble to create a .deb, so I can't see it being any harder to modify their programs.

[shiznix]

I hope this evolves into something that works for Ubuntu.
At this present time though it just seems like a poorly thought out decision.

Quite strange really to lock the users out of the applications they want to use because Ubuntu expect the greater software community to implement a Ubuntu only API whose functionality is already covered in the API of the GUI toolkits (eg.GTK/QT).

Maybe all we need is some savvy pro-Ubuntu software developer to create a 'systray-indicator' that resides on the top panel with all the other indicators, but is a placeholder for the thousands of applications that already use their respective GUI toolkit's systray implementation and so will never port to a distro specific API.

[alphacrucis2]

One issue that this was causing me is cryptkeeper. However I have found an alternative called gnome-encfs-manager. It hasn't been packaged for the normal repos yet but there is a ppa. Seems to work ok.

https://launchpad.net/~gencfsm/+archive/ppa/+packages

[Favux]

Had to write a white list module. Had to write a Gnome shell extension.

Quick look at the Python code link from post #10. Is there a Gtk2 appindicator? Or is AppIndicator3 only Gtk3?

Do I want to spend the time reading through the spec.s? What if I discover the current implementation of the app.'s system tray icon breaks the intended UI? Rewrite code just for 13.04? Course I have to make the cross Distro/Desktop installer detect Raring as a special case (v.s. Precise or Quantal) now.

Or do I say the heck with it? Becoming more and more tempting. Only a few thousand users, so hey.

[rrnbtter]

Greetings,
Looks like we got a new Bluetooth Indicator today. From my perspective it is very nice. Hope it is a prelude to the standard for all of the rest that are to come.

[diesch]

Had to write a white list module. Had to write a Gnome shell extension.

Quick look at the Python code link from post #10. Is there a Gtk2 appindicator? Or is AppIndicator3 only Gtk3?

Use

import appindicator

instead of

from gi.repository import AppIndicator3 as appindicator

if your app is using PyGtk instead of PyGObject.

[Favux]

Thanks diesch. That's simple enough and helps.

[Paddy Landau]

I have raised requests for both yad and TrueCrypt to change their programs.

You can see the yad request, but I cannot find the TrueCrypt request (the TrueCrypt bug area does not seem to have listing or search facilities).

Let's hope that the developers accept this change. If not, we have a problem.

[ELD]

X-Chat really needs proper indicator support as well.