Are they 100% compatible? Can you switch between both without loosing any functionality? Will end user notice switch?
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/network-manager-applet/blob/master/configure.ac#L167 network-manager-applet now support both and I doubt that someone tests all indicators - systray, appindicator and ayatana-appindicator... >From https://sunweavers.net/blog/node/67: In Ayatana Indicators (speaking with my upstream hat on now), we are currently working on a re-implementation of the rendering part of the indicators (using GTK's popovers rather then menushells), so that it works on vanilla GTK-3. Help from GTK-3 developers is highly welcome, in case you feel like chiming in. So sounds like visually they are not same or will not be? How that affects Unity 7 or other desktops? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1770146 Title: [MIR] libayatana-appindicator Status in libayatana-appindicator package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: [Availability] * Everywhere [Rationale] * Appindicator is dead, we should move it to universe and switch to the "better" and "supported" ayatana version [Security] * No security bugs found [Quality assurance] * Strongly maintained in Debian, lots of packages in main used to have deltas to drop and switch to appindicator, I think we will save a lot of work by just syncing stuff and not maintaining appindicator anymore (at least moving it to universe) [Dependencies] * All deps in main [Standards compliance] * New compat level * Maintained in sync with Debian * It builds a python2 bind, maybe we can just not MIR all binaries there [Maintenance] * Debian maintains it, and is doing a port to ayatana of all packages. [Background information] * I think we can also just MIR libayatana-appindicator3-1 reverse-depends -c main src:libappindicator -r cosmic Reverse-Depends =============== * network-manager-gnome (for libappindicator3-1) * remmina (for libappindicator3-1) * transmission-gtk (for libappindicator3-1) all the three packages are now using ayatana in -proposed pocket To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libayatana-appindicator/+bug/1770146/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages Post to : dx-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
