Is there any reason to force installation of this package? I have a local copy of the same ebuild with removed libappindicator and Signal works as expected without any issues, including notifications and tray icon. For example, slack-bin and skypeforlinux on the same electron does not require this package. Electron itself also doesn't have such dependency. I also don't see any linked libraries to the binary file. For example, Xfce can work withour libappindicator and all tray icons will work just fine.
Well, I see now that deb package requires libappindicator. However Electron documentations states that "On Linux the app indicator will be used if it is supported, otherwise GtkStatusIcon will be used instead." [1] So it definitely can be optional. [1]: https://github.com/electron/electron/blob/master/docs/api/tray.md
An `appindicator` USE flag would probably make sense? I ran into missing support/dependencies for appindicator in slack-bin, another Electron app. There are probably more Electron apps with appindicator support either enabled or disabled in the tree, they should probably all get the same USE flag.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=e3587c87f9d45eb2accaad1a300af9ac5e9473c4 commit e3587c87f9d45eb2accaad1a300af9ac5e9473c4 Author: Robert Siebeck <gentoo.bugzilla.2012@r123.de> AuthorDate: 2018-01-31 21:39:39 +0000 Commit: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2018-02-01 18:56:41 +0000 net-im/signal-desktop-bin: new version 1.3.0 Add use flag ayatana for dependency to appindicator. Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/645814 net-im/signal-desktop-bin/Manifest | 1 + .../signal-desktop-bin-1.3.0.ebuild | 51 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 52 insertions(+)
