Hi Daniel,
Although I agree that we should support tray icons out-of-the-box, I'd
rather do this in a way that would be upstreamable so that we don't
wind up requiring a shell extension to make this work. AppIndicator has
been rejected from GNOME due to serious technical problems [1], so that
particular approach seems to be a dead end and probably not useful to
focus on. And adding support for AppIndicator now would likely pose
backwards-compatibility issues in the future, given that any upstream
implementation of tray icons is likely to be incompatible.
The GNOME design team has previously expressed willingness to explore
designs for tray icons, and I think GNOME community has a rough
consensus that some form of tray icons would be desirable (see the most
recent discussion at [2]), but I don't think there are any designs yet.
I think we're a bit stuck on coordination problems right now: nobody is
quite sure what this would look like, and nobody is working on it. So I
think the place to start would be to take this upstream to the GNOME
community and try to work out something that could be adopted
everywhere, rather than as a shell extension.
Thanks for your interest,
Michael
[1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues/1014#note_568908
[2]
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2019-March/msg00020.html
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