[24.04 pre alpha] nm-applet changed, accepts no options, obeys no dconf rules

[thom]

Hi all,
Testing Ubuntu-MATE 24.04 LTS.
Trying to find bugs before it hits freeze.

nm-applet displaying double icons again:
1 icon in indicator applet complete
1 icon in messages area

The only way to solve this seems to be by delaying the startup of nm-applet by a second or so.
This seems to give the indicator time to deploy so that it is fully up when nm-applets probes for it.
(yes, racecondition indeed if this is true)

You can *not* force nm-applet's build-in indicator off.

stripping the --indicator option from: nm-applet --indicator in startup does not work anymore
because nm-applet does not honour any option anymore, indicator is always shown regardless.
(see also: man nm-applet)

The official way seems to have been:
gsettings set org.gnome.nm-applet show-applet false

But this also won't work anymore, so this entry also became useless.

I think it might be wise to:
1) drop the --indicator option and also drop the dconf key,
   they are useless (and potentially confusing) because this customizability doesn't exist (anymore).
2) default to 1 second delay in autostart
   to prevent a racecondition between nm-applet and the other indicator.

I might be totally out of line here. Please let me know if I am.

Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu Noble Numbat (development branch)
Release: 24.04
Codename: noble
apt policy network-manager-gnome
network-manager-gnome:
  Geïnstalleerd: 1.34.0-1ubuntu1
  Kandidaat: 1.34.0-1ubuntu1
  Versietabel:
 *** 1.34.0-1ubuntu1 500
        500 http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status