Support automatically desktops that do not use app-indicators
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| network-manager-applet (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Bug Description
After further discussion on #ubuntu-motu.
budgie-desktop (v10.2.9) by default does not have app-indicator support. It uses nm-applet to display its connection information in its (X11) system tray.
By default Ubuntu has a patch to switch the default display of nm-applet to desktops running an app-indicators applet. For desktops that don't natively support app-indicators, nm-applet will not display in their system tray whereas in Debian those desktops will display nm-applet correctly.
I maintain budgie-desktop via Debian - so when it is sync'd, nm-applet will not display without a very specific ubuntu patch to add the "--no-indictor" param to nm-applet when running.
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Thus this exacerbates the need for specific Ubuntu patching and maintenance rather than having vanilla Debian syncs.
If there is a better way to handle this, please let me know - I raise this bug-report really to seek if Ubuntu's version of nm-applet can be tweaked to have better handling of these types of situations in the long term i.e. if only to have a discussion and find out what the intention is (eg. if everyone else is supposed/required to maintain a delta as a consequence or not).
