Re: buggy GNOME extensions, it drives me nuts that GNOME has no built in support for menu bar icons/app indicators.

There's a whole class of GUI apps that should run in the background until needed, and GNOME just has no solution here. I really don't get why they removed this functionality.

I don't want a "service" model where you start/stop gui apps via systemd. And I don't want to keep a window around for no good reason.