Unity 8 does not hide indicators in drop-down when their root item is set not visible

[dinamic]

ubuntu 16.10 unity8 desktop
don't show battery and bluetooth indicators when hardware is not present, like on a desktop

i don't have bluetooth or a battery

[Michał Sawicz (saviq)]

I don't think unity8 should do anything here - the indicators should hide themselves. What I'm not sure of is whether unity8 supports something like that at the moment.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[dobey (dobey)]

The indicators *do* hide themselves (they set the visibility of their root item to false). This works fine in unity7, and in unity8 it only works half-way.

In unity8, when an indicator sets its root item visibility to false, the icon disappears from the top panel in general, but when the drop-down for indicators is opened, the indicator is still shown anyway, and any visible children are also shown, though they shouldn't be.