#2179: use appindicator on unity and gnome, but leave the other deskt…

…op environments alone for now - they're not necessarily as broken as those two

git-svn-id: https://xpra.org/svn/Xpra/trunk@21894 3bb7dfac-3a0b-4e04-842a-767bc560f471

src/xpra/os_util.py

@@ -361,6 +361,9 @@ def getUbuntuVersion():
 def is_unity():
     return os.environ.get("XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP", "").lower().startswith("unity")
 
+def is_gnome():
+    return os.environ.get("XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP", "").lower().startswith("gnome")
+
 def is_WSL():
     if not POSIX:
         return False

src/xpra/platform/xposix/appindicator_tray.py

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 import os
 
 from xpra.util import envbool
-from xpra.os_util import is_unity, monotonic_time, getUbuntuVersion, PYTHON2, PYTHON3
+from xpra.os_util import is_unity, is_gnome, monotonic_time, getUbuntuVersion, PYTHON2, PYTHON3
 from xpra.client.tray_base import TrayBase
 from xpra.platform.paths import get_icon_dir, get_icon_filename
 from xpra.log import Logger
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ def get_application_category(appindicator):
     return v
 
 def can_use_appindicator():
-    return get_appindicator() is not None
+    return get_appindicator() is not None and (is_unity() or is_gnome())
 
 
 class AppindicatorTray(TrayBase):