Indicator in Plasma 5 not showing

[Daniel Franzen]

Since Plasma 5 does not support xembed anymore, the tray icon does not show at all in the newest version of Kubuntu/KDE.

A quick fix for me was to import appindicator and set has_indicator to true (which is usually only done for Ubuntu with Unity)

Could one just replace the code to load appindicator in Ubuntu >13.04 with

try:
  import appindicator
  has_indicator = True
except:
  has_indicator = False

like for pynotify?

What does not work with this fix is the "click to enable/disable touch". For some reason left-click does not do anything