Comment 18 for bug 522152

I believe this bug is also causing nm-applet to not send scan requests while the networks menu is open. I'm not sure how many people are still using a GNOME desktop with nm-applet rather than gnome-shell, and which is the current default on new installs -- aren't there still environments without gnome-shell selectable from the login screen in the default installation? If so that might still be affecting a large portion of users.

None of the workarounds listed above is easily applicable to nm-applet. At the same time it seems that on Fedora this isn't an issue. Is is possible that Fedora uses libappindicator from a different repository, or carries patches for this? Where even is the "upstream" for libappindicator?