Public bug reported:

After further discussion on #ubuntu-motu.

budgie-desktop (v10.2.9) by default does not have app-indicator support.
It uses nm-applet to display its connection information in its (X11)
system tray.

By default Ubuntu has a patch to switch the default display of nm-applet
to desktops running an app-indicators applet.  For desktops that don't
natively support app-indicators, nm-applet will not display in their
system tray whereas in Debian those desktops will display nm-applet
correctly.

I maintain budgie-desktop via Debian - so when it is sync'd, nm-applet
will not display without a very specific ubuntu patch to add the "--no-
indictor" param to nm-applet when running.

 - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/budgie-desktop/+bug/1653739

Thus this exacerbates the need for specific Ubuntu patching and
maintenance rather than having vanilla Debian syncs.

If there is a better way to handle this, please let me know - I raise
this bug-report really to seek if Ubuntu's version of nm-applet can be
tweaked to have better handling of these types of situations in the long
term i.e. if only to have a discussion and find out what the intention
is (eg. if everyone else is supposed/required to maintain a delta as a
consequence or not).

** Affects: network-manager-applet (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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  Support automatically desktops that do not use app-indicators

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