The Gnome desktop considers systray icons useless and by default does not ship or support any systray. If I understand the article correctly, the Dropbox client can no longer run on defsult Gnome desktops.
I run gnome on all my machines with displays, for many years now. I never paid much thought to what "AppIndicator" is, but I've always used what I believe you're calling "systray", if I understand correctly?
I have temperature and network gauges on the top right next to my battery/audio/WiFi indicators. My work laptop (Ubuntu) has indicators up there for Livepatch and Mattermost, or are these not the same thing?
As far as I recall, I've not had to do anything particularly special other than install the extension for the thing I want, Freon etc, and the Livepatch and Mattermost ones were just there whether I wanted them or not.
It's possible I did something when I setup Gnome on my personal laptop (Arch) but other machines are running Ubuntu and I think it just did this OOB.
Interesting UX decisions and Gnome have gone hand in hand since I first came across it.
The earliest one I remember was when they discovered spatial memory and promptly decided that, by default, every Nautilus folder should open in a new top-level window, cluttering up my desktop before I could even start working.
I have temperature and network gauges on the top right next to my battery/audio/WiFi indicators. My work laptop (Ubuntu) has indicators up there for Livepatch and Mattermost, or are these not the same thing?
As far as I recall, I've not had to do anything particularly special other than install the extension for the thing I want, Freon etc, and the Livepatch and Mattermost ones were just there whether I wanted them or not.
It's possible I did something when I setup Gnome on my personal laptop (Arch) but other machines are running Ubuntu and I think it just did this OOB.