[feature request] support for libayatana-appindicator

[jcfp]

In debian, libappindicator has been removed [1, 2] and applications ported to libayatana-appindicator, a compatible and actively maintained fork. I added a patch to the xpad package to make it use the ayatana lib [3] (completely replacing libappindicator, since it's unavailable anyway).

For xpad itself it might be preferable to support both for maximum compatibility; i.e. have configure check for the presence of both libs and modify the include statement in src/xpad-tray.c so that things work out of the box as long as headers for at least one of them are found at build time.

[1] https://packages.qa.debian.org/liba/libappindicator/news/20210914T185651Z.html
[2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=895037
[3] https://salsa.debian.org/jcfp/xpad/-/blob/324cd5e8f8d96750974b7504bbf86b2d19c3962b/debian/patches/01_use_libayatana-appindicator.diff

[Arthur Borsboom (arthurborsboom)]

I am happy to have some guidance from the field. :)

I prefer to maintain only one indicator, so I will give it a try to completely migrate to the libayatana-appindicator.

The last time, the move from GtkStatusIcon to libappindicator was a pain (to me), so it might take a bit time. Your patch will probably help me; thanks for the help.

I will get back to you.

[Arthur Borsboom (arthurborsboom)]

Xpad 5.7.0 has been released, which contains the move to libayatana.

https://launchpad.net/xpad/trunk/5.7.0
https://launchpad.net/xpad/trunk/5.7.0/+download/xpad-5.7.0.tar.bz2