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[Anshuman Aggarwal <974480@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Mark,
 Since you are 'on' this thread...Please see this post from the perspective of some one who has been an unabashed fan of Ubuntu, Canonical and your personal investment into an open source OS with the aim of making it self sustaining ...all of which are noble goals and I fully appreciate the need to have it this way since it should survive beyond you and your personal finances...Having said that...(wait its not bashing time yet)

I think you're not respecting the power of lethargy and status quo and
learning the lesson from Windows XP as well as can be done...inspite of
the best efforts of MS to move people away from XP (discounts on
upgrades)...currently there are people paying top dollar for keeping
their dependencies going and these people have dedicated IT
departments...instead of upgrading closed source commercial applications
which they own....

You are asking nay demanding that open source developers follow a
cathedral line where Open source has always been about the
Bazaar....keep the options open and let people find their own
path...what comes out popular may not be the best technically  but it
will help your cause win...what is more important to be right or be
right now?

Sincerely,
A ubuntu lover tormented seeing the slow demise of a great movement ironically due to the SA nature of the BDFL...here is hoping that the SABDFL is open to some open thought

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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  Notification area whitelist is obsolete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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