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[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.
> 
> 
> 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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