Remove AppIndicator3 dependency

[Péter Trombitás]

Hi,

My problem is that Cuttlefish has no icon in Openbox under Arch Linux.

I think what causes the problem is that Cuttlefish uses _only_ AppIndicator3, and if that is not installed, there's no fallback option. I know that you made this program for Ubuntu, but it would be awesome if it didn't depend on it.

I think that this problem can be solved in 10 minutes or so, for example Caffeine has a "try - except" part in its code that checks for AppIndicator3, and if that isn't found, it falls back to status icon.

I'm using v 12.08-1.

[Alex (noneed4anick)]

Hi Peter,

thanks for your feedback. I'd love to provide a version that is fully functional in arch linux too. But at the moment I got a big project and I don't think that this feature will land any sooner than in november this year. And I'm not sure if using the AppIndicator is the only ubuntu-specific thing in the code. Maybe other distributions don't provide some interfaces I use (or provide them differently) or so...

[Péter Trombitás (trombipeti)]

Hi,

Thank you.
I think I'll start hacking on the code, but that will be some ugly solution
as I don't no so much python. If I succeed I'll let you know.

Peter

2012/9/20 Alex <email address hidden>

> Hi Peter,
>
>
> thanks for your feedback. I'd love to provide a version that is fully
> functional in arch linux too. But at the moment I got a big project and I
> don't think that this feature will land any sooner than in november this
> year. And I'm not sure if using the AppIndicator is the only
> ubuntu-specific thing in the code. Maybe other distributions don't provide
> some interfaces I use (or provide them differently) or so...
>
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[Alex (noneed4anick)]

If you branch from my ppa I can review it if you make some progress :-)

[Roquentin (antonio-roquentin-deactivatedaccount)]

Hi Peter, perhaps you might have a look how this issue is handled by the notification area plugin

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~gtg/gtg/trunk/view/head:/GTG/plugins/notification_area/notification_area.py

of gtg (a TODO list manager), which is written in python too. Hope this helps!