Thanks a lot for the feedback, I'm marking it as "Won't Fix" then.
Some notes: 1) nm-applet integration has issues, it doesn't display the applet for me on gnome-flashback without manually adding notification-area. I also tried with a recent 14.04 live CD, some times nm-applet did appear and some times it didn't, so I think there's some race condition involved, possibly related to LP #1256961. I'll test more when that bug is resolved. With notification-area manually added, there's no race condition, nm-applet always appears. 2) About pidgin, if you're talking about http://packages.ubuntu.com/indicator-status-provider-pidgin, I see there it's only available for 12.04, maybe that's why I didn't have the integration issues there and I'm having them now in 14.04. In 14.04 I see that indicator-messages conflicts with indicator-status-provider-pidgin, is pidgin in 14.04 supposed to use indicator-messages, and for some reason it doesn't? 3) About stardict and the other apps that aren't yet ported to use the new indicators, let's hope they will soon, but until then, users have no way of knowing why some applications aren't displaying their indicators and that they need to add notification-area manually to work around that problem. Deprecating something doesn't mean it has to be removed immediately, there should be a grace period until e.g. 80% of the involved applications has had enough time to update their code base to use the new indicators. So maybe gnome-panel could grant them that grace period and add notification-area for a couple of more years, dunno... Kind regards, Alkis ** Changed in: gnome-panel (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Won't Fix -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-panel in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1263591 Title: Add notification-area to panel-default-layout.layout To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-panel/+bug/1263591/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
