Re: virt-manager - libappindicator-gtk3 - remmina

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On 03.06.2015 14:28, Giovanni Panozzo wrote:
> 
> Adding Antenore to this thread, the other Remmina developer left on the 
> whole earth :)
> 
> My small contribution: Remmina can survive without libappindicators. It 
> will fallback to use GtkStatusIcon to show its icon under Xfce/Lxde/Kde 
> (note that GtkStatusIcon is deprecated now, with no alternatives).
> 

Yeah, it applies to GTK+ 3:
[gtk+] docs: GtkStatusIcon is deprecated since 3.14, not 3.16
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/commits-list/2014-September/msg05639.html

But at least the Xfce is still a mixed environment, mostly GTK+ 2.

I think it's good to ask the man who is best versed in all of this, related to the Xfce,
Nick please be free to comment.


> My original suggestion was intended for Gnome Shell users: link remmina 
> with libappindicators AND also add this extension
> https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/615/appindicator-support/
> The result under Gnome Shell is a very nice system tray menu for remmina.
> 
> But currently is almost impossible to have a coherent and working on all 
> desktop environment systemtray icon + menu.
> I started to collect informations on this page:
> https://github.com/FreeRDP/Remmina/wiki/Systray-menu
> but it's almost impossible to come to a simple solution.
> 
> And in our reasoning (this morning!) we discussed also if we should just 
> remove the systray icon+menu. Your opinion on the removal are welcome :)
> 
> So, feel free to remove libappindicators on fedora: Gnome Shell users 
> which did not install the appindicator extension will not notice any 
> difference without libappindicators.
> Users of xfce/kde/lxde will get a GtkStatusIcon menu, if the apposite 
> panel applet is loaded.
> 
> Giovanni
> 
> 
> Il 03/06/15 13:16, poma ha scritto:
>> On 03.06.2015 11:53, Simone Caronni wrote:
>>> On 3 June 2015 at 11:28, Pavel Alexeev <pahan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>>   Hi,
>>>>         Is not it virt-manager problem or libappindicator? Shouldn't it be
>>>> addressed there?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> If I remember correctly there was a time when people were discussing about
>>> bringing Unity in Fedora. This did not happen, and actually the library is
>>> pretty useless as there is no libappindicator consumer right now. I'm not
>>> sure it's worth investigating.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> --Simone
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> Oh yeah
>> https://www.redhat.com/archives/virt-tools-list/2013-July/msg00203.html
>>
>>

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