On Mon, 25 Mar 2019 at 16:29, Will Thompson <w...@willthompson.co.uk> wrote:
> On the other hand: this API under its various names is already > widely-supported both by (non-GNOME) apps, and by widely-used desktop > environments – a virtuous cycle. In particular, several third-party, > non-free apps like Dropbox which are partially or totally > unusable without a status notifier already support it. (Not to make this > all about Dropbox – it's just an app I use that falls into the "totally > unusable" category.) > > I'm sure it's not as simple as "copy > https://github.com/ubuntu/gnome-shell-extension-appindicator into the > gnome-shell tree" – though it seems to work fine after a few days' testing > – but supporting and improving this API would at least mean that many > existing apps would behave as intended by their developers without needing > to be changed (immediately). > If the answer to status icons is to adopt/adapt the appindicator API, I'm also fine with that; a bunch of applications do use it, since it's basically Ubuntu integration, and apparently "Linux == Ubuntu" for some vendors. Of course, a lot of the crappy "let's inspect GtkMenu at run time and serialize it over DBus assuming nothing preserves state on top of the menu/menu items" needs to go, and we need to handle the GMenu serialization. But we're still back to the issue of: we need to port applications. Ciao, Emmanuele. -- https://www.bassi.io [@] ebassi [@gmail.com]
_______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
