As part of every GNOME release (spanning GNOME Shell, Mutter, core apps, etc) is an official set of GNOME Shell extensions. This is non-default package is
The current system tray/app indicator system is kind of a mess.
It adds potential insecurities, and it’s just generally untidy and unintuitive - will the icons be monochrome or coloured? When you click it does it open the app? Does it open a context menu? Does instead right clicking open a context menu? Does right clicking open a different context menu? For most people that stuff is minor (they’re used to the jank/inconsistency of Windows, after all), but the Gnome team seems to really hate little unintuitive or inconsistency niggles like that.
They’ve spoken for years about wanting to create a new, standardised, cross-desktop system tray that fixes these issues, but because it requires not only cross-desktop but also third party dev collaboration, progress has been practically non-existent.
I don’t know if this specific thing is related (I can’t follow the link on my work PC), but if it is, it could be the first step towards the above.
The current system tray/app indicator system is kind of a mess.
It adds potential insecurities, and it’s just generally untidy and unintuitive - will the icons be monochrome or coloured? When you click it does it open the app? Does it open a context menu? Does instead right clicking open a context menu? Does right clicking open a different context menu? For most people that stuff is minor (they’re used to the jank/inconsistency of Windows, after all), but the Gnome team seems to really hate little unintuitive or inconsistency niggles like that.
They’ve spoken for years about wanting to create a new, standardised, cross-desktop system tray that fixes these issues, but because it requires not only cross-desktop but also third party dev collaboration, progress has been practically non-existent.
I don’t know if this specific thing is related (I can’t follow the link on my work PC), but if it is, it could be the first step towards the above.
E: nope, it’s not that. I’m also puzzled.