Ubuntu's indicator-applet (me menu, session, messaging, volume) support in system tray

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I'd like to see this as an option in Tint2, in a if its running, use it 
scenario. From what I understand of Ubuntu's new indicator system, (And I'm not 
a programmer, so I don't know the mechanics exactly.) its api handles all the 
drawing and menu calls. It also has api calls to put it in other panels, like 
KDE's panel and Avant Window Navigators dock. So all thats really required from 
a dock/panel is a place to put the icons and a call to the api.

 While under KDE, indicator-applet uses native menus. I'm not sure how thats achieved. And awn already depends on gtk, so they may be taking advantage of that in their implementation. But to just call the indicator and have it display what it puts out by default. Seems like it shouldn't be a lot of work. (Feel free to tell me I'm clueless.) 

 As far as configuring it, I was thinking something like:
systray_indicators = 0 for no (Default) or 1 for yes
to load all of the indicators.
Or
systray_me_menu, systray_indcatior_messageing, etc. again 0 for no (default) 
and 1 for yes
To dynamically load indicators like awn.

I realize it this is currently Ubuntu specific, so its more a would be nice, if 
its not to hard to do kinda thing

Original issue reported on code.google.com by snkiz...@gmail.com on 19 Sep 2010 at 3:58

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Original comment by thilo...@gmail.com on 2 Dec 2010 at 9:47

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Do you have any sources for the information about embeddability? I'd like to 
look into this.

Original comment by Samin...@gmail.com on 29 Jul 2011 at 5:14

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directly? no. What I do know is they use freedesktop.org spec, KDE supports 
them and recently I read on OmgUbuntu that Gnome is coming around to support 
them. 

if its any help here is the wiki page for the indicators and the code in 
launchpad for awn's implantation.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopExperienceTeam/ApplicationIndicators
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~awn-extras/awn-extras/trunk/files/head:/applets/mai
ntained/indicator-applet/

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Original comment by mrovi9...@gmail.com on 2 Feb 2015 at 12:06

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http://xkcd.com/927/

Original comment by mrovi9...@gmail.com on 6 Feb 2015 at 12:30

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Original comment by mrovi9...@gmail.com on 25 Apr 2015 at 11:16

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