Provide a way to disable usage of the application indicator interface

[nick]

I personally really dislike the way an application indicator behaves, so even if the library is available, I'd like to have the old systray icon.

I've attached a patch that provides a new option to disable usage of the application indicator. Seems to work quite nicely for me.

[nick]

Patch to add option for disabling the use of application indicator

[andar]

I think it would better to make this option "Enable Application Indicator" and keep its default as False. Having "positive" actions is a better design imo.

Any chance you could change the patch to reflect this?

[Calum]

I also thought about this but would mean the icon was actually missing on Natty and could have a lot of users asking where its gone.

This will only affect people with appindicator installed.

[Damien Churchill]

Debian packages have the power to patch, so I'm sure they can flip the option by default...

I'm with andar on this, the default shouldn't cater for Ubuntu.

[andar]

Yes, this was exactly my thoughts. Ubuntu can simply patch the default to True for their users. I don't like it on by default because it really lacks functionality compared to the system tray and not everyone that has app indicator installed actually wants to use it.

[nick]

Sounds reasonable. I'll see about switching up the patch so it's a positive icon. Hopefully will have time soon.

[nick]

Add 'enable application indicator' option to gtkui. Defaults to false.

[nick]

Okay, uploaded a patch with a positive option that defaults the option to false.

[andar]

Committed. Thanks!