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Re: [Question #688931]: gnome 3 tray icon?

 

Question #688931 on Xpad changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/xpad/+question/688931

Umang Jain posted a new comment:
> This is a GTK feature. Therefor I disagree that tray-icons have
nothing to do with GTK.

Yeah, I mis-spoke. Sorry for that.

> Is the libappindicator that replacement?
> If so, is there a detailed guide how to migrate from GtkStatusIcon to libappindicator ?
> Will the libappindicator work for most common desktop environments, such as?

libappindicator is just a gnome-shell extension so it will only work if
GNOME shell is running underneath hence by that extension assume a GNOME
D.E. underneath. I can't speak for other D.E. but I can take a look
around how these pans out on other distributions.

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