Unity Notification Area (Systray) Whitelist Is Obsolete [Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail Changes]

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pLwiqaTABNk/URPaka9jxYI/AAAAAAAANcw/EHWJe3jJFiQ/s1600/notification-area.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Ubuntu old notification area" border="0" height="24" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pLwiqaTABNk/URPaka9jxYI/AAAAAAAANcw/EHWJe3jJFiQ/s320/notification-area.png" title="Ubuntu old notification area" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Old notification area (before AppIndicators)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The notification area (systray) was removed from the Unity panel with Ubuntu 11.04, but you could still use it by <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2011/04/how-to-re-enable-notification-area.html">whitelisting</a> applications which would allow the icons to show up in the notification area. But not any more! </div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>A recent Unity <a href="https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/raring/+source/unity/6.12.0daily13.02.07-0ubuntu1">update</a> in Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail mentions that the "</b><b>Notification area whitelist is obsolete",</b> so you can no longer get notification area icons by whitelisting applications. However, when the notification area whitelist was introduced, there were many applications that didn't come with AppIndicators so it was a pretty big issue back then, but right now most applications that used to come with a tray icon now use AppIndicators, including popular apps like Dropbox, Steam, Skype (with "sni-qt") and so on.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Also, all Qt applications tray icons are automatically converted to AppIndicators thanks to the "sni-qt" package. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lm-e4DOmV_g/URPclY0P01I/AAAAAAAANc4/vrHybJQXVv0/s1600/appindicators.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Ubuntu appindicators" border="0" height="39" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lm-e4DOmV_g/URPclY0P01I/AAAAAAAANc4/vrHybJQXVv0/s320/appindicators.png" title="Ubuntu appindicators" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">AppIndicators</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">With the retirement of the notification area whitelist, Java and Wine apps have been <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/974480">hard-coded</a> as the only software still able to use the notification area so this change only affects some old applications that don't come with AppIndicator support. But with the huge number of AppIndicators that exist today, you'll probably find similar or maybe even better alternative. For instance, you can find a huge list of applications that come with Ubuntu AppIndicators on <a href="http://askubuntu.com/questions/30334/what-application-indicators-are-available">AskUbuntu</a>; we've also covered quite a few <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/search/label/appindicator?max-results=10">AppIndicators</a>.</div><br /><br /><i><a href="http://www.webupd8.org/search/label/raring%20ringtail?max-results=10">Click here</a> for more Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail (currently under development) news.</i>

Unity Notification Area (Systray) Whitelist Is Obsolete [Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail Changes]

Old notification area (before AppIndicators) The notification area (systray) was removed from the Unity panel with Ubuntu 11.04, but you cou...

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