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[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paddy, yes, it may help to contact the developers of those applications
-- though if they run their apps on Ubuntu at all, almost certainly they
have realized by now that their notification area items don't show up by
default.

The Ubuntu Developer site has a reference for using the indicator
system. <http://developer.ubuntu.com/resources/technologies/application-
indicators/>

And Gnome similarly advises that the notification area is deprecated,
with an example of what to do instead.
<https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeShell/Design/Guidelines/MessageTray/Compatibility>

There is no issue with the developers of Java and Wine themselves. The
issue is with the thousands of developers of applications that use Java
or that run on Wine. It is not reasonable to expect a Windows
application developer, for example, to check whether their app runs on
Wine.

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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  Notification area whitelist is obsolete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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