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[Paddy Landau <974480@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew, thank you for posting that link. It would have been useful if I
had had it when I previously requested third party developers to modify
their programs. It is notable that two of those developers have not even
bothered to reply to me; clearly, they don't care about Ubuntu (they
obviously know about Ubuntu now that I have made the request).

If I understand you correctly, you want us to open a new bug for each
and every third-party app that does not adhere to the Canonical
standard, i.e. do not work correctly in 13.04 and above? Please confirm
or correct me.

What about Java and Wine: have you attempted to negotiate with their
developers? At the very least, they will become aware that Ubuntu
exists, meaining that (according to the bug description) you can remove
the whitelist altogether. I will be happy to contact them on your behalf
if you are too busy.

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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  Notification area whitelist is obsolete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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