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["Stephen M. Webb" <stephen.webb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

@Maxim Loparev

Thank you for making the effort to improve the Ubuntu desktop.

The status notifier specification is popular and mature enough that in
the half-decade since it was first published, most desktop toolkits have
implemented and integrated it.

You can find excellent documentation, including bindings for several
popular languages and example code, starting from [1].  I'm sure the Tk
bindings can build on one of the existing bindings.

A more effective way to address this would be in a mailing list or
forum, rather than commenting on a fixed and released bug against the
design of one particular desktop environment that also happens to use
code that implements the specification.  thank you for bringing the
broken web links to our attention:  once again filing a bug against the
appropriate software is a more effective way to bring about improvement.


[1] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/StatusNotifierIcon/

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/974480

Title:
  Notification area whitelist is obsolete

Status in Ayatana Design:
  Fix Released
Status in Unity:
  Fix Released
Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Mark has asked us to consider retiring the notification area whitelist
  for 12.10. The application indicator system has been in place for two
  years now, which should be long enough for applications to adopt it.

  If the whitelist was retired, Java and Wine would be hard-coded as the
  only software still able to use the menu bar as if it was a
  notification area, because their developers don't necessarily know
  that Ubuntu even exists.

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