Comment 2 for bug 1173833

I don't think that an applet approach is appropriate in Gnome Shell. Life with notification area "applets" has become a lot easier in 3.8 with pointer barriers support, but in the long run, it's a *notification* tray, not a general place for all sorts of icons.

I started an attempt to have better integration into Gnome Shell here: <https://github.com/tommie-lie/gnome-shell-extension-redshift>. The extension is currently waiting for review at the Gnome extension repository.

There are still lots of quirks in this extension, but maybe this could be integrated into the redshift source package (just like gtk-redshift) once all problems are sorted out.