System indicators will drop GTK2 support in quantal

[Micah Gersten]

On 06/29/2012 11:21 AM, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm not sure how well that got communicated after UDS so I'm sending
> an email to the devel list.
>
> With the LTS out the dx indicators' team is dropping gtk2 support for
> indicator-* this cycle (i.e the system indicators:
> indicator-session,messages,etc), they will still keep gtk2 versions of
> the libraries so there should be no issue for applications.
>
> 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).
>
> -- 
> Sebastien Bacher
>
Unfortunately, Xfce's plans to migrate to GTK3 were pushed off, so I
think we're going to need a GTK2 version of the indicator stack for the
time being.
Here's what Xubuntu is currently using:

indicator-application                                       | indicator-application             | libappindicator3-1 (Recommends)                    | Ubuntu Desktop Team <ubuntu-desktop at lists.ubuntu.com>                   |           30286 |             152
indicator-application-gtk2                                  | indicator-application             | Xubuntu.Quantal desktop seed                       | Ubuntu Desktop Team <ubuntu-desktop at lists.ubuntu.com>                   |           11626 |              94
indicator-messages                                          | indicator-messages                | indicator-messages-gtk2                            | Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com>               |           69044 |             345
indicator-messages-gtk2                                     | indicator-messages                | xfce4-indicator-plugin (Recommends)                | Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com>               |           11496 |              84
indicator-sound                                             | indicator-sound                   | indicator-sound-gtk2                               | Ubuntu Desktop Team <ubuntu-desktop at lists.ubuntu.com>                   |          106116 |             359
indicator-sound-gtk2                                        | indicator-sound                   | Xubuntu.Quantal desktop seed                       | Ubuntu Desktop Team <ubuntu-desktop at lists.ubuntu.com>                   |           33906 |             124
indicator-status-provider-mc5                               | indicator-messages                | indicator-messages (Recommends)                    | Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com>               |            6206 |              76
indicator-status-provider-pidgin                            | indicator-messages                | pidgin-libnotify (Recommends)                      | Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com>               |            6848 |              80


Thanks,
Micah