Re: I believe we should reconsider our sys-tray removal

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Sat, 2019-03-23 at 11:06 -0700, Britt Yazel wrote:
> Ladies and Gentlemen,
>
> Congrats on an excellent 3.32 release! As the one handling the front
> facing side of our social media accounts, I can safely say that the
> users are EXTREMELY happy with the changes, both features and
> performance, so give yourselves a nice pat on the back :-)
>
> I want to re-poen an old argument now that we have seen the effects
> of removing the sys-tray/app-indicator tray for well over a year. In
> short, the users are not happy. I believe our goals of putting
> pressure on application developers to ditch the antiquated app-
> indicator model fell mostly on deaf ears, and not having the sys-tray 
> icons is mostly a nuisance for people, and big pain point for many.
<snip>
> However, I don't think we should go forward into 3.34+ without a 1st
> party solutions in place for how to treat sys-tray icons, because
> (sadly) they're not going anywhere.

The status icons were removed for technical and design reasons. The
design reasons haven't changed:
https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/StatusIconMigration

And the technical reasons haven't either, as those status icons are X11
only and will stop working as more more apps are ported to Wayland.