Re: Are indicator-* packaged in Ubuntu necessary/useful for GS to work?

[Gabriel Rossetti <rossetti gabriel gmail com>]

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Gabriel Rossetti <rossetti gabriel gmail com> wrote:

Hi all,

I just installed Ubuntu 12.10 on a new machine and I am removing all the unity packages I can find. I noticed that there are a bunch of indicator-* packages around (indicator-application, indicator-power, indicator-datetime, etc), what do these do? I couldn't find any info on them indicating they were useful/needed or not for GS. I figured out that indicator-appmenu is not needed as it is Unity specific, what about the others?

Thanks!
Gabriel

Same question for :

• appmenu-gtk
• appmenu-gtk3
• appmenu-qt

Which export menus over DBus, this sounds very Unity-centric, is it useful for Gnome-Shell?

Thanks,

Gabriel