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elementary / wingpanel

Stylish top panel that holds indicators and spawns an application launcher
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Support indicators for 3rd party applications #431

Closed rdanter closed 2 years ago

rdanter commented 2 years ago

Problem

I'm sure this has been brought up before but I want to raise it again because it is really frustrating.

I use multiple desktops and machines so I use tools like Dropbox for sharing files. The indicator works on every desktop and OS I use except eOS. I can get it by following the steps here:

https://elementaryos.stackexchange.com/questions/28500/tray-icon-support-in-elementary-6-odin-single-click-in-file-manager

but this is not something I think most beginner users would be comfortable doing.

It's not just Dropbox, indicators for Telegram and other chat programs also use what I think are "standard" indicators. Not having this work out of the box makes it difficult for anyone new to eOS whether absolute beginners or just those moving from other desktops.

Proposal

Proposal is to have the wingpanel-indicator-ayatana included and enabled by default.

Prior Art (Optional)

No response

cassidyjames commented 2 years ago

Duplicate of #96, see https://github.com/elementary/wingpanel/issues/96#issuecomment-401412541 and https://islinuxabout.xyz/systray/ for more info.