Bug 558338 – dev-perl/Gtk2-AppIndicator - A perl binding for GTK2 AppIndicator

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Mathy Vanvoorden 2015-08-21 11:05:15 UTC]

Created attachment 409744 [details]
Gtk2-AppIndicator-0.15.ebuild

A new ebuild for Gtk2::AppIndicator to allow Perl-based applications to use the systemtray through the libappindicator framework.

For example Shutter uses this in preference to XEmbed if it is available.


Also in my overlay for easy installation in case anyone needs it:

https://github.com/MathyV/gentoo-overlay-mathy

[Comment 1 Andreas K. Hüttel 2015-09-09 20:34:39 UTC]

In general we're reluctant to add even more perl packages. Could you please explain a bit more where it's needed? TIA

[Comment 2 Mathy Vanvoorden 2015-09-24 21:07:25 UTC]

This package is needed if you want to have systray behavior for certain applications (like Shutter) in an environment like Enlightenment, which doesn't properly support the deprecated XEmbed standard. I guess more DE's might stop supporting XEmbed so it could become more necessary in the future.

[Comment 3 Michael Palimaka (kensington) 2015-09-25 15:08:51 UTC]

Plasma 5 is another example of XEmbed support being dropped, so this will definitely be useful if there's packages that can make use of it.

[Comment 4 Andreas K. Hüttel 2015-12-11 23:25:39 UTC]

Added, thanks!