While either of those is arguably true in its own right, I have trouble imagining that this particular code (a mere 42 lines pulled out, by my count) would impose an undue maintenance burden, particularly considering they're retaining a hard-coded whiltelist for wine and java and will continue to support the dconf whitelist for years in 12.04 LTS. Eliminating all those crufty old apps that don't want to fall in line with Canonical's new appindicator approach makes the system "cleaner" and more "unified." Less code provides less of a maintenance burden for future changes and less opportunity for bugs.Ģ. The two "benefits" I can see them arguing for are:ġ. That said, I fear Canonical is taking the approach that our loss is inconsequential, and abandoning these icons provides a greater benefit. I acknowledge that some people don't use a particular tray icon, or features from it, but that doesn't diminish the validity of the use case held by many others who do utilize them, and have diminished functionality (or complete inoperability in some cases) as a result of this. As I'm sure is the case with many other users and applications, this causes a regression / loss of previous functionality for Pidgin (despite some integration with the messaging app indicator, or whatever they call it): https:/ /bugs.launchpad.
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