Comment 2 for bug 1174755

Looking at the release notes for 13.04, I see the problem now. Ubuntu has decided to make it harder for application developers to right programs that work well outside of an Ubuntu environment. We now have to write special indicator code to make it work on Ubuntu and still maintain statusicon code to provide the same functionality for non-Unity platforms. Seems like the opposite of "Unity" to me.

Oh well, I'll try to take of this in the not-too-distant future.

At least it should be enough to branch based on the availability of the appindicator python module. The indicator module understands that it should fall back to a statusicon if the appindicator subsystem is not present.