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well yeah thats how gnome shell will enhance their background apps section in the corner menu. Currently all you can do is summon the application from the background into focus. This implementation will hopefully replace the need for https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/615/appindicator-support/
I don't believe so. With appindicator you're 1 click away from the apps menu. With this solution you're 3 clicks away
Appindictator is an extension. There'll likely be an extension which adds them to the top bar.
This implementation of background apps seems to pretty close to current systray implementations, so I hope those others will finally be replaced.
What's the benefit in replacing one extension with another in order to achieve the same thing? Real progress would be an option in the default Gnome shell to show the background apps directly in the top bar without any additional clicks.