mate-indicator-applet no longer supports non-ayatana indicators?
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| mate-indicator-applet (Ubuntu) |
New
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Hi mate-indicator-
I'm making a Ubuntu 22.04 desktop image with MATE recently, and I find out that mate-indicator-
I have read source code and found that the const str `INDICATORDIR` controls where to load these traditional indicators. To validate whether `INDICATORDIR` is assigned correctly (to /usr/lib/
Ubuntu 22.04:
```
$ strings mate-indicator-
/usr/share/
/usr/share/locale
/usr/share/
/usr/lib/
/usr/lib/
```
Ubuntu 20.04:
```
$ strings mate-indicator-
/usr/lib/
/usr/share/
/usr/share/locale
/usr/share/
/usr/lib/
```
It seems that there's no non-ayatana indicators support in current mate-indicator-
Thank you very much.
Appendix:
```
$ apt info indicator-
Package: indicator-
Version: 12.10.1+
Priority: optional
Section: universe/gnome
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Desktop Team <email address hidden>
Bugs: https:/
Installed-Size: 126 kB
Depends: libappindicator3-1 (>= 0.2.92), libc6 (>= 2.4), libdbus-glib-1-2 (>= 0.88), libdbusmenu-gtk3-4 (>= 0.4.2), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.37.3), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.0.0), libindicator3-7 (>= 0.4.90), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), indicator-common
Homepage: https:/
Download-Size: 24.7 kB
APT-Manual-
APT-Sources: https:/
Description: Application Indicators
An indicator to take menus from applications and place them in the panel.
$ apt info mate-indicator-
Package: mate-indicator-
Version: 1.26.0-1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/x11
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <email address hidden>
Original-
Bugs: https:/
Installed-Size: 202 kB
Provides: indicator-renderer
Depends: mate-indicator-
Homepage: http://
Task: ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop
Download-Size: 34.6 kB
APT-Manual-
APT-Sources: https:/
Description: MATE panel indicator applet
A small applet to display information from various applications
consistently in the panel.
.
The indicator applet exposes Ayatana Indicators in the MATE Panel.
Ayatana Indicators are an initiative by Canonical to provide crisp and
clean system and application status indication. They take the form of an
icon and associated menu, displayed (usually) in the desktop panel.
Existing indicators include the Message Menu, Battery Menu and Sound
menu.
```
---
ProblemType: Bug
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.1
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckR
CurrentDesktop: MATE
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
Package: mate-indicator-
PackageArchitec
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=
TERM=xterm-
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=zh_CN.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
Tags: jammy
Uname: Linux 5.15.39-1-pve x86_64
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: sudo
_MarkForUpload: True
---
ProblemType: Bug
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.1
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckR
CurrentDesktop: MATE
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
Package: mate-indicator-
PackageArchitec
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=
TERM=xterm-
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=zh_CN.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
Tags: jammy
Uname: Linux 5.15.39-1-pve x86_64
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: sudo
_MarkForUpload: True
| description: | updated |
| taoky (taoky) wrote Dependencies.txt | #2 |
| tags: | added: apport-collected |
| description: | updated |
| taoky (taoky) wrote NonfreeKernelModules.txt | #3 |
| taoky (taoky) wrote ProcCpuinfoMinimal.txt | #4 |
| taoky (taoky) wrote Dependencies.txt | #6 |
| taoky (taoky) wrote NonfreeKernelModules.txt | #7 |
| taoky (taoky) wrote ProcCpuinfoMinimal.txt | #8 |
Please run
apport-collect 1981696
on the affected system.
Please test Ayatana indicator way more deeper on your own.