No indicator/messaging-menu support for gnome-shell

[Jeremy Nickurak]

Binary package hint: gnome-shell

If we're going to have mail-checking and instant messaging support in gnome-shell, it'll be pretty important to have support for the indicator/messaging-menu protocol, even if there's no "applet" support per se.

What if the indicator-applet could be a notification/tray icon instead of a legacy libpanel-applet2 applet? Is there anything about the indicator-applet that would particular preclude this from happening?

Alternatively, does this need to be re-implemented in gnome-shell directly?

[Siegfried Gevatter (rainct)]

A new notification system is currently being implemented in GNOME Shell.

http://www.gnome.org/~mccann/shell/mockups/20090630-demo/

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the issue is not a bug in the applet but rather a feature request, nothing stop you to use dbusmenu in other environement though, there is a kde version for example

[Maia Everett (linneris)]

Since upstream has shot down libappindicator, this feature is unlikely to ever be implemented there. Someone will need to write an Ubuntu-specific patch.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Has this been implemented yet? I can't immediately tell, but it sounds likely to have been resolved since the bug was logged 7+ years ago.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for gnome-shell (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]