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Ubuntu 17.10 to Bring Support for Indicators, Notification Badges to Ubuntu Dock

By Marius Nestor

Last week, we told you that Ubuntu 17.10 will support all known driverless printing standards and that captive portal detection is now enabled by default. Also, Ubuntu 17.10 received initial support for PolicyKit authentication in the Snapd Snappy daemon, to finally allow users to install and remove Snaps from the Snappy Store without having to create an Ubuntu One account. And now, it looks like Ubuntu Dock is getting support for indicators and notification badges. This is great news for those using apps that support libappindicators, as the soon-to-be-released GNOME 3.26 desktop environment won’t ship with support for indicators. On top of that, enabling notification badge support in Ubuntu Dock is a must for ex-Unity users.

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