Because that application was written for the platform that Ubuntu is now using (Gnome), and the other one wasn't.
Open-source developers' time is in short supply. It doesn't make sense to spend time porting non-native applications when native applications already exist that can do the job. It's tricky for users (us) to switch applications whenever the platform changes, but that's the price you pay for not building a GNU/Linux system yourself. Feel free to build and use one that never changes subsystems. ;) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Unity API bugs, which is subscribed to libappindicator. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1714804 Title: Aardvark Daily: Indicator-Multiload doesn't show full-width Status in System Load Indicator: New Status in libappindicator: New Status in indicator-multiload package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: In Ubuntu Indicator-Multiload is an essential application as it shows that computer is actually doing something even when an application is giving no feedback for a long period of time. Conky is not an option as it gets hidden behind full screen applications. Unfortunately the move to Gnome has broken indicator-multiload so that it can't show all of the indicators. CPU Memory Network Swap System Load Disk I've tried the developers suggestion of installing TopIcons and TopIconsplus to no avail. I see that Ubuntu App-Indicator is also installed so maybe app-indicator extension is broken in Gnome and not indicator-multiload. Anyway steps to reproduce: Install Ubuntu 16.04.x LTS Install indicator-multiload Open the settings of indicator-multiload by clicking on it and choosing settings Click all of the sources on You will now see 6 panels showing the earlier described graphs. Now install Ubuntu 17.10 Daily Install indicator-multiload Mouse over the top bar to faintly get an idea where indicator-multiload is running click on it and open the settings Click all of the sources on You will now see tiny faint lines which give no clue whatsoever as to what is going on with the machine. Please fix either app-indicator extension or indicator-multiload to work with Gnome. Thanks ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10 Package: indicator-multiload 0.4-0ubuntu5 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.12.0-12.13-generic 4.12.8 Uname: Linux 4.12.0-12-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Sun Sep 3 19:12:33 2017 InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-09-03 (0 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Alpha amd64 (20170902) ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm-256color PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: indicator-multiload UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/indicator-multiload/+bug/1714804/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~unity-api-bugs Post to : unity-api-bugs@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~unity-api-bugs More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
