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[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ed, as Paul Sladen explained in 2013-02-09, the notification area was
basically a set of tiny windows: a program could put anything in its
window, responding to clicks, right-clicks, double-clicks, drags, or
anything else, and doing anything in response, including opening menus
in any toolkit. As a simple example (unfortunately common on Windows),
an item might open one menu on left-click and a different menu on right-
click, with some of the items in those two menus being the same. Even if
you came up with heuristics for merging two menus, there's no practical
way that a hypothetical Ubuntu component could tell, ahead of time, that
either action *would* open a menu, rather than, say, disconnect your
Voip call.

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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  Notification area whitelist is obsolete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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