The apps should always degrade to older / alternative behaviours. It's a bug if they don't, and I'm sorry if the Empathy case was badly handled, we should patch things up with upstream :-) If the category indicator (sound indicator in this case) is not present, then AppIndicators or the SysTray (till 11.04 on Ubuntu) are available and should be used. However, we want the default behaviour to be: - don't offer the ability to put it in either/both places - just have one "Put it on the panel" option, which either uses the Sound Indicator or AppIndicator or Systray Mark
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature