Comment 4 for bug 577327

I am against it. It looks like an Ubuntu specific library that duplicates most of the functionality already contained within GTK+ and doesn't even seem to be something that Gnome developers are interested in using for Gnome Shell in 3.0. Per GKT+ devs, it sounds like they aren't too keen on it:

http://<email address hidden>/msg18063.html

In addition, it is an unstable library in which its APIs can change at any time per its own documentation:

http://people.canonical.com/~ted/libappindicator/current/AppIndicator.html

For the above reasons and due to the fact that it would require hacks in our code to implement, I think it should stay as an Ubuntu specific patch. What are your thoughts RZ?