While Shutter, whose developers long resisted adding support for it, added App Indicator support late last year. Skype, VLC, Opera, and Spotify for Linux all do. Off the top of my head I’m finding it difficult to think of a single mainstream-application that doesn’t already make use of the App Indicator spec. Another thing that happens: notice the icon in very top left corner This also appears in my System Tray. Ive attached the popup for your examination. Or maybe unity is history in 5 years from now. Hi everyone - Im getting this really weird popup down near my System Tray and have no idea whether its malware or whether its something legitimate. Maybe, in 5 years from now, such applications will accept that unity exist and provide indicators. “Thanks for breaking the 5000+ Ubuntu users within our company that “enjoy” using such ancient applications like Sametime, Lotus Notes or Symantec Antivirus. This, MPT says, is because ‘… their developers don’t necessarily know that Ubuntu even exists.’Ĭommenting on the bug report to remove the whitelist, user Ed Guenter rants: The good news is that while the whitelist itself is going away support for applications run under Wine, or those built with Java, will remain visible. Whitelisting Apps in Ubuntu 12.10 – Now Gone in 13.04Īpp Indicators were formally introduced in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS to create a consistent user-experience when interacting with items in the System Tray. Now, in requesting the removal of this configurable ‘whitelist’ from the up-coming Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu’s Matthew Paul Thomas argues that developers have had enough time to adopt the App Indicator spec. An option allowing applications lacking App Indicator support to show in the system tray has been removed from Ubuntu 13.04.Īpplications and services not using the feature were hidden by default in Ubuntu 11.04 – but could be manually re-enabled through a hidden settings option.
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