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rcmorano / gnome-shell-gnome2-notifications

GNOME Shell extension to provide a gnome2-like notifications/tray icons
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gm-notify does not appear #7

Open bulletmark opened 12 years ago

bulletmark commented 12 years ago

I am a ubuntu 11.10 gnome-shell user with the webupd8 ppa enabled. That includes gnome-shell-classic-systray package as version 0.1-0~webupd8~oneiric. I also have long used the ubuntu package gm-notify which presents a mail icon if I have unread gmail. When I get email, then I can see gm-notify in my "hidden" gnome-shell notifications area, but it does not appear in the classic systray. All my other apps like pidgin, skype, etc appear ok.

rcmorano commented 12 years ago

Hello bulletmark,

I've been looking into it and I realised that gm-notify uses Ubuntu indicators to show up. Since gnome-shell does not support Ubuntu's indicators, none of them will be handled.

Notes from gnome-shell code:

// Yet-another-Ubuntu-workaround - we have to kill their // app-indicators, so that applications fall back to normal // status icons // http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi=id=621382 Util.killall('indicator-application-service');

Maybe I could modify gnome-shell to handle and show indicators aswell. I'll keep this issue open :]