Re: [Ayatana] Combo Indicator Applets

[Ted Gould <ted@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 15:51 -0600, Jeremy Nickurak wrote:
>     On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 15:31, Ted Gould <ted@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >         With Application Indicators we manage the fallback into the notification area by default, so application developers don't need to worry about that in most cases.  They can change the behavior of that fallback if they wish.
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>     What counts as an application indicator exactly? I removed indicator-applet and indicator-session applet from my panel, logged out, and logged in, and i didn't see anything extra show up in the notification area. My thinking is that I'd see the messaging menu icon and perhaps the volume indicator especially in the notification area, but that hasn't happened.

Anything that's not a system indicator :)  The library that handles this fallback is libappindicator.  You can find any application using libappindicator like this:

  $ apt-cache rdepend libappindicator0
Probably the simplest case in Lucid is to look at the Rhythmbox application indicator or the GNOME Power Manager one.

        --Ted

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