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Ayatana Indicator Application Service
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These app indicators are so great.. #21

Closed chaibronz closed 2 years ago

chaibronz commented 2 years ago

Per the title, seriously. These app indicators are such an improvement over the default equivalents in the MATE desktop environment, but from what I can see they only come packaged in Ubuntu-MATE. This is probably the wrong forum to ask but why aren't these all pushed for inclusion in the MATE desktop environment so they come shipped on all distros?

sunweaver commented 2 years ago

First of all, indicators are cross-desktop-env tools.

Then, it is just a matter desktop configuration if one wants indicators enabled by default. For Debian 12, I am considering this as a default desktop env setup.

However, as Ayatana Indicators are not part of a specific desktop environment, all environments come without them. Putting them together is task of the distribution maintainers and you are right, Ubuntu MATE is currently the only distro (flavour) that enables Ayatana Indicators by default.