Comment 6 for bug 1000350

On 17/05/2012 01:56, Andrew Starr-Bochicchio wrote:
> Thanks for the patch, hyperair.
>
> In the past I've specifically not added a direct dependency on python-
> appindicator. It keeps us closer to Debian. Also the code gracefully
> falls back to the old systray even if "enable_appindicator": True is set
> if it's not installed. So if you install it on Unity the indicator will
> just work, but if you install it on another desktop you won't pull in
> the indicator stack.
>
> Does that make sense?

Yes, that makes sense, actually. I didn't notice that the import appindicator
was optional.

How about listing it under Recommends instead of Depends?

> If we think that we need the dependency, I've got a good relation with
> the Debian maintainer. I imagine he'd be open to using dpkg-vendor to
> generate Ubuntu specific depends if I provided the patch.

Sure, why not?

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Kind regards,
Loong Jin