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[Dmitry Shachnev <mitya57@xxxxxxxxx>]

I am not going to add notification area back _by_default_. This is
consistent with what other desktops do:

- Plasma 5 and Unity do not support X11 system tray at all.
- Mainstream GNOME is discouraging use of X11 tray and moving it to a place that is difficult to reach.

... and with what toolkits do:

- Qt 5.5 supports Ubuntu's indicators by default. For Qt 5.4, this functionality is available in appmenu-qt5.
- Gtk+ deprecated GtkStatusIcon in 3.14 and is encouraging use of platform-specific tray mechanisms (which will be indicators in our case).

If you want the X11 notifications area, it is not gone and available for
adding to the panel out of the box.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1263591

Title:
  Add notification-area to panel-default-layout.layout

Status in gnome-panel package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix
Status in gnome-panel package in Baltix:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Upstream gnome-panel includes notification-area:
  https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-panel/plain/data/panel-default-layout.layout

  In Ubuntu, debian/patches/01_layout.patch changes that file in order to make use of indicator-applet-complete. That patch is Ubuntu-specific, it doesn't exist in Debian:
  http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-gnome/desktop/unstable/gnome-panel/debian/patches/

  The problem is that that patch also removes notification-area, so
  applications like pidgin, stardict etc (and even nm-applet in Trusty)
  don't show up at all.

  Please modify that patch so that notification-area is not removed,
  i.e. add the following lines to it:

  [Object notification-area]
  object-iid=NotificationAreaAppletFactory::NotificationArea
  toplevel-id=top-panel
  pack-type=end
  pack-index=1

  I'm attaching an updated 41_classic_layout.patch.

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