Please consider porting the the Ayatana project for indicators

[Unit193]

The Ubuntu indicator stack was forked into an upstream project, partially to make it more friendly to distributions that aren't Ubuntu to package them. Right now, Debian is in the progress of switching to the Ayatana fork of indicators and Ubuntu has it as a goal in the next release (one can use the Ayatana libraries in the latest LTS release even.)

In order to do that with pasystray, one would only have to do the following:

--- pasystray-0.6.0.orig/configure.ac
+++ pasystray-0.6.0/configure.ac
@@ -118,8 +118,8 @@ AC_ARG_ENABLE([appindicator],
     AS_HELP_STRING([--disable-appindicator], [Disable optional appindicator support]))
 
 case ${with_gtk} in
-    2) APPINDICATOR_VERSION=appindicator-0.1;;
-    3) APPINDICATOR_VERSION=appindicator3-0.1;;
+    2) APPINDICATOR_VERSION=ayatana-appindicator-0.1;;
+    3) APPINDICATOR_VERSION=ayatana-appindicator3-0.1;;
 esac
 AS_IF([test "x$enable_appindicator" != xno],
     [PKG_CHECK_MODULES(APPINDICATOR, [ $APPINDICATOR_VERSION ], HAVE_APPINDICATOR=1,
--- pasystray-0.6.0.orig/src/systray_impl.c
+++ pasystray-0.6.0/src/systray_impl.c
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 
 #ifdef HAVE_APPINDICATOR
 
-#include <libappindicator/app-indicator.h>
+#include <libayatana-appindicator/app-indicator.h>
 
 static void systray_impl_scroll_cb(AppIndicator* appind, gint delta, GdkScrollDirection direction, gpointer userdata)
 {

[smlx]

FWIW, pasystray in Debian now carries this patch.

[christophgysin]

I would happily accept a PR that adds a configure option to choose the appindicator variant.