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[Conscious User <conscioususer@xxxxxxx>]

Now, moving on with the discussion itself:

> Real shortly then: broken but not-yet-replaceable applications needs
> two things from their indicators:
> 
> 1. to  be able to interact left/right click etc
> 2. to be able to be seen at all times

Instead of keeping the notification area *exactly* as it is or hiding
it entirely inside an indicator menu, one possible middle-ground
alternative is creating a space for Wine icons that behave the same
way as the Windows 7 Notification Area.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa511448.aspx

Gnome/Ubuntu rejected this kind of fine-grained control over the
years with the argument that it's better to prevent NA abuse to
begin with. The guidelines for using using libappindicator (kinda)
prevent this for happening with native apps, but with Windows
apps this is impossible to enforce, so perhaps it's more acceptable.