No status icons in Fedora 27/Wayland

[techtonik]

Nitroshare is completely invisible on Fedora 27, because it uses Wayland, and Gnome doesn't implement status icons under Wayland.

[nathan-osman]

Does it support AppIndicators? Does it require a third-party plugin? How do other "headless" applications handle this in Gnome?

[techtonik]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=758677 I am not sure what notifications do they speak about.

[techtonik]

https://blogs.gnome.org/aday/2017/08/31/status-icons-and-gnome/ and this is official explanation.

[hedayat]

No, gnome is completely deprecating status icons. It'll disappear from Xorg too, since it won't exist in GTK 4 at all. Notifications are the ones that appear at the top of the screen, and if they are persistent, they'll reside in the box which is opened when you click at the center of the top bar (beside the calendar). However, some apps, e.g. music players, can also add a box there to control music playback.

So, I see 2 solutions: 1. Implementing support for adding nitroshare to that area, like what music players do. 2. Implementing a gnome shell extension exclusively for nitroshare, so that it is integrated in the top bar. 3. Do nothing special, but open the Transfers window automatically under Gnome. And either completely close Nitroshare when it is closed, or open the Transfer view again if someone tries to run Nitroshare again. I'd suggest ether the first option, or the 3rd one, which should be also much easier.

Currently, it seems that the only way to actually USE nitroshare for sending files is to use nautilus extension.

Hey, actually the icon doesn't even appear in Fedora 27 using Xorg already!