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[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paddy, if you know of other popular runtimes that allow graphical
applications with notification area elements to run on Ubuntu, where
their developers are likely to be unaware of Ubuntu, please report those
individually. (Anton's examples of C++ and Python don't fall into that
category: they're just programming languages. And any Linux-specific
runtime won't fall into that category either, since Ubuntu probably has
more PC users than all other Linux distributions combined.) The same
goes for those mysterious "international de facto standard" applications
-- we can't do anything about them if they remain unnamed.

I don't know what you mean by "new bugs and related comments". This
report does not have any duplicates, and even if it did, it would not be
possible to tell anything in particular from their quantity, because
people don't tend to report bugs of the form "my menu bar is too
consistent and predictable". Opposition is usually noisier than
agreement. And a primary reason this report has so many comments is that
I and others have continued to answer your questions. I described the
reason for abolishing the notification area nearly four years ago.
<http://design.canonical.com/2010/04/notification-area/>

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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  Notification area whitelist is obsolete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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