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

@Paddy Landau

Not a single package in this bug is "broken" since they conform to the
published status notifier specification, a common public specification
developed through the freedesktop.org collaboration environment by a
number of individuals representing various desktop toolkits, including
but not limited to Unity and KDE.  It has been adopted as standard by
all common Free desktop environments except one.

Third-party software is free to implement the common specification or
not.  Should they choose to not implement it or use the functionality if
available in their toolkit of choice, their software will not work well
on Ubuntu or many of its flavours.  We hope they would choose to work
well with our product, but ultimately it's their decision and I assume
they do not make it lightly.

You can either ask the developer of your favourite third-party software
to support running their product on Ubuntu, or you can find an
alternative that works better in this environment.

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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  Notification area whitelist is obsolete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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