Comment 10 for bug 1263591

> That said, if nm-applet and pidgin get fixed for 14.04, notification-area isn't that important anymore...

I tried manually applying the patch for nm-applet, it works fine.
Pidgin works fine too, after playing a bit with its settings.
So yup notification-area isn't that important anymore.

Dmitry many gnome-panel bugs were fixed recently, thanks!

The only major blocker left for deploying 14.04 with gnome-panel now,
is the keyboard indicator not responding to xorg keyboard layout switches,
the rest issues left are either small ones or workarounds for them exist.