budgie-desktop needs to display the nm-applet icon in the panel

[fossfreedom]

As the debian maintainer of budgie-desktop I have recently pushed v10.2.9-2 and this has been sync'd via Debian.

The nm-applet no longer displays in the panel. This is because Ubuntu has a specific patch to nm-applet that assumes app-indicators is the default display mechanism not the X11 tray icon.

Thus Ubuntu Budgie needs a specific ubuntu only patch to run nm-applet with the parameter --no-indicator

Note - whilst we do support appindicators - our appindicator deliberately hides nm-applet because we follow upstream plans which include a separate network-manager applet built specifically for budgie-desktop. Thus we don't want future complications of both the app-indicator and the separate applet both displaying the same info.

Additionally - those that install budgie-desktop without the appindicator package will also need to see and use the nm-applet functionality.

[fossfreedom (fossfreedom)]

This patch adds the --no-indicator param to the /etc/xdg/autostart file that launches nm-applet.

[fossfreedom (fossfreedom)]

Also uploaded to our (Ubuntu Budgie) zesty proposed PPA - https://launchpad.net/~ubuntubudgie-dev/+archive/ubuntu/zesty-proposed/+sourcepub/7370656/+listing-archive-extra

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

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[Robie Basak (racb)]

12:40 <rbasak> fossfreedom_: that looks fine. I didn't think there was any such thing as an "X11 tray icon" though? I was under the impression that they were done via GNOME's stuff or something (as opposed to the indicator infrastructure).

12:41 <rbasak> fossfreedom_: a second thought: shouldn't this be fixed in our delta against nm-applet, rather than working around it in Budgie?

12:42 <rbasak> For example is it possible to detect at runtime whether indicators are in use?

12:48 <fossfreedom_> rbasak: I like the idea of rejigging nm-applet to detect. However I don't really have an idea how to do this :(

12:50 <fossfreedom_> I mentioned X11 in the description simply because that is how upstream refers to the tray applet in budgie-desktop.

12:55 <fossfreedom_> Probably overthinking ... may not be possible to say in nm-applet "is app indicators in use" - the indicator service can be running - but the user might have simply removed the appindicator applet from the desktop. Sounds to be a bit messy.

13:06 <rbasak> fossfreedom_: OK. Where do you want me to sponsor the patch from? The attachment is only the quilt patch, not a debdiff, and I want to make sure you get full credit to help for your future upload access :-)

[fossfreedom (fossfreedom)]

Also attached a debdiff of the changes made

[fossfreedom (fossfreedom)]

attached another debdiff with a more accurate description for the changelog and the patch itself

[Robie Basak (racb)]

Uploaded. Thanks!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package budgie-desktop - 10.2.9-2ubuntu1

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budgie-desktop (10.2.9-2ubuntu1) zesty; urgency=medium

  * Bug-fix release (LP: #1653739)
    - Run nm-applet without indicators to ensure it works on
      budgie-desktop, flipping Ubuntu's default.

 -- David Mohammed <email address hidden> Tue, 03 Jan 2017 19:48:38 +0000