No appindicator support

[jrgifford]

Starting in Ubuntu 11.04, SysTray has been removed to be replaced by AppIndicators - gloudapp does not have a AppIndicator.

[cmur2]

Yes, you are right Ubuntu is going it's own way with Unity which makes it harder to support apps for Ubuntu...

As an instant fix you could extend the SysTray whitelist or use JCloudApp which stays (as any Java application in general) on this whitelist already - but I can understand that this might not be best way ;)

So finally I will dive into the AppIndicator topic and whether/how it is supported in Ruby right now and if this turns out to be possible there is a chance to implement a switch to use AppIndicator where supported and StatusIcon as a fallback.

(btw Unity 2D shows the icon on Ubuntu 11.04)

[jrgifford]

Agreed that it's a pain. I haven't found any ruby bindings for it, doesn't mean they don't exist though.

[cmur2]

Yeah I found some [ruby-libappindicator](https://github.com/leander256/ruby_libappindicator but) but the author himself classifies them as very beta, at least the code looks nice in some way. Integrating them into GloudApp is on my todo when I have some free time.

[cmur2]

The new GloudApp version 1.3.0 has experimental support for AppIndicator. Detailed installation instructions are included in the readme, feedback welcome!

[jrgifford]

Thanks for adding this! Works fine in 11.10 (Unity 2D).