Florian Müllner wrote:
The discussion was about GNOME shell's top bar. No application
(GNOME,
KDE, Unity or whatever) can add anything there (using XEmbed,
NotifierIcon, libnotify or whatever).
That's exactly the source of the complaint: Only stuff hardcoded inside
gnome-shell (or written as a gnome-shell extension) can get the intended
rendering, everything else (in particular, everything non-GNOME) is treated
as a second-class citizen and filed into a trash drawer hidden most of the
time.
Kevin Kofler