Comment 2 for bug 733179

Artha is expected to be used by many distros and not by Ubuntu alone. Unity doesn't honour GtkStatusIcon of GTK+, while other desktop environments Gnome, KDE, Xfce to name a few does. Adding conditional code only to tackle a single desktop environment's deviation defeats the purpose of using a cross-platform toolkit library.

Hence adding Artha to systry whitelist seems to be a better solution and this, if I'm not wrong, can be done with out changing the code i.e. via the debian package.