System indicators will drop GTK2 support in quantal

[Julien Lavergne]

Le 06/29/2012 06:21 PM, Sebastien Bacher a écrit :
> I'm not sure what are the plans e.g xfce and GTK3 and if indicators
> are used there but if that's an issue for xubuntu or other derivates
> please let us know which ones you need so we can work together on a
> solution (which could be to upload a different source with the precise
> version of the needed indicators to build with gtk2 for example). 
It will also break indicators support for lxpanel (LXDE panel) and Awn
(avant-window-navigator), which will not be ported to GTK3 during this
cycle.

For Lubuntu, it's problematic, because we can't rely on the fallback
icons on the notification-area, when indicators-application is not
enable. We had several bugs during the last cycles, some are not yet
fixed (network-manager with 3G for example). That's why we are planning
to add indicator-application by default for quantal, on Lubuntu, on the
lxpanel.

Micah told me about this drop (very briefly) at UDS, and the plan was to
upload a GTK2 version in universe, which sound acceptable.

As a side note, it's a bit unpleasant to first, have to implement a new
API, usefull only on Ubuntu and partialy on Debian, and now be forced to
migrate to GTK3 to still support the indicators. Removing GTK2 support
means removing approximately half of the providers of indicator support
(panel) on Ubuntu repositories.

Regards,
Julien Lavergne