[16.10] indicator-application isn't aware of MATE

[Vlad Orlov]

Starting from 16.10, Ubuntu MATE developers switched the whole MATE Desktop Environment to GTK+3. As a consequence, mate-indicator-applet now uses indicator-application instead of legacy indicator-application-gtk2. But indicator-application uses .desktop file instead of D-Bus service (I guess it has been changed in [1]), and indicator-application.desktop file doesn't know about MATE:

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=Indicator Application
Exec=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/indicator-application/indicator-application-service
StartupNotify=false
Terminal=false
OnlyShowIn=Unity;GNOME;
AutostartCondition=GNOME3 unless-session gnome

So, currently indicator-application doesn't show up in mate-indicator-applet on mate-panel as the service isn't running. If I run indicator-application-service manually, indicator-application works as intended (e.g. nm-applet is switched to it instead of using tray icon).

Please, let indicator applet know about MATE.

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[1] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~indicator-applet-developers/indicator-application/trunk.16.10/revision/242