<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@crisconru" class="u-url mention">@<span>crisconru</span></a></span> you might wanna also check out <a href="https://docs.elementary.io/contributor-guide/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">docs.elementary.io/contributor</span><span class="invisible">-guide/</span></a></p><p>Since panel indicators are plugins they have to be installed to test them, so if you’re worried about breaking your system I would recommend setting up a virtual machine yes. It’s pretty hard to get things into a completely unrecoverable state though, you can reinstall the plugin with apt to reset things basically</p>