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+# Ayatana System Indicator &mdash; Display [![Build Status](https://api.travis-ci.com/AyatanaIndicators/libayatana-appindicator.svg)](https://travis-ci.com/github/AyatanaIndicators/libayatana-appindicator)
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+## About Ayatana Indicators
+
+The Ayatana Indicators project is the continuation of Application
+Indicators and System Indicators, two technologies developed by Canonical
+Ltd. for the Unity7 desktop.
+
+Application Indicators are a GTK implementation of the StatusNotifierItem
+Specification (SNI) that was originally submitted to freedesktop.org by
+KDE.
+
+System Indicators are an extensions to the Application Indicators idea.
+System Indicators allow for far more widgets to be displayed in the
+indicator's menu.
+
+The Ayatana Indicators project is the new upstream for application
+indicators, system indicators and associated projects with a focus on
+making Ayatana Indicators a desktop agnostic technology.
+
+On GNU/Linux, Ayatana Indicators are currently available for desktop
+envinronments like MATE (used by default in [Ubuntu
+MATE](https://ubuntu-mate.com)), XFCE (used by default in
+[Xubuntu](https://bluesabre.org/2021/02/25/xubuntu-21-04-progress-update/),
+LXDE, and the Budgie Desktop).
+
+The Lomiri Operating Environment (UI of the Ubuntu Touch OS, formerly
+known as Unity8) uses Ayatana Indicators for rendering its notification
+area and the [UBports](https://ubports.com) project is a core contributor
+to the Ayatana Indicators project.
+
+For further info, please visit:
+https://ayatana-indicators.org
+
+## The Ayatana Application Indicators (Shared Library)
+
+A library to allow applications to export a menu into the an Application
+Indicators aware menu bar. Based on KSNI it also works in KDE and will
+fallback to generic Systray support if none of those are available.
+
+This code project was originally started by Canonical Ltd. and has been
+adapted by various authors with the purpose of making this Application
+Indicators available on Ubuntu and non-Ubuntu systems alike.
+
+## License and Copyright
+
+See COPYING and AUTHORS file in this project.
+
+## Building and Testing
+
+For instructions on building and running built-in tests, see the INSTALL.md file.