indicator-applet is too closed for other messaging apps

[Jan Schürmann]

i don't know if this is too difficult to develop or what's the point of the closed behaviour of indicator-applet.
i would like to choose which messaging applications should show up in the applet and which functions i want to have.
something like a GUI to choose from installed apps and from the functions this apps have.

i.e. i use Skype, Pidgin/Empathy, Thunderbird and Gwibber.
now i want to start the "indicator-applet-configurator" it shows me all my installed messaging apps or ask me to choose a "3rd-party app-plugin" and i could choose which one i want to show up in the applet.

for me it is a bug, because Linux is all about freedom of choice and the indicator-applet isn't free for choice!!

if a GUI driven configuration is too difficult i could live with a tutorial how to achive the wanted behaviour!!
i managed to get Thunderbird fully functional in the applet, but that doesn't work with skype and it doesn't work to close Thunderbird to applet but still running in the background.

[Markus (markusb)]

This is a similar issue as https://bugs.launchpad.net/indicator-applet/+bug/570088 and could be merged

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

not really the same issue but in any case it's not an issue for the applet which is only the container for indicators clients

[igi (igor-cali)]

try this, if a tutorial is enough. It helped me to add skype, thunderbird, xchat and thunderbird in my message container.

https://answers.edge.launchpad.net/indicator-applet/+question/91891

[Jan Schürmann (visionfactory.net)]

i know that and i have Skype and Thunderbird in my applet. but that doesn't change the fact that it's much too closed for the Linux World!
i.e. indicator-applet doesn't interact fully with Thunderbird and Skype

[Alexey Kotlyarov (koterpillar)]

Wouldn't it be appropriate to report bugs against Thunderbird and Skype instead?

[Jan Schürmann (visionfactory.net)]

Thunderbird and Skype are programs for different kinds of operating systems and almost all Linux derivates i don't think they have to change for only one distribution (even if it's the best Linux distribution ever ;-)
ubuntu wants to make life easier with indicator-applets so ubuntu has to provide an easy way to integrate the programs of users choice...
btw i think it doesn't go against something.