Re: My gripes with Gnome Shell

[0x90 <0x90 phocean net>]

>     TL;DR:
>     Running applications in the background is a valid use, and we'd like to improve on what we have. We 
> don't think legacy status icons are a good pattern and discourage their use.
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> Yeah, I think this is what I was remembering, not specifically legacy status icons which as you correctly 
> said has a number of flaws.  Strangely, I don't really miss the tray icons..  So, victory?

I agree that your target is good and that ideally we would not need the tray.

But I do miss a replacement, seriously, without TopIcons I would not be using Gnome.
I am not alone, just look at the popularity of topicons and topicons plus and read the comments.
So, no, not really a victory.