Comment 2 for bug 522152

For some applications this is a much needed feature. I'm programming a small system monitor to display information like battery status and temperature in a way that uses little space on the screen and I want to use an icon in the notification area for this. Currently I have to stick with a regular Gtk StatusIcon because I would have to poll the hardware information all the time with the Application Indicators which is inacceptable. This should really be fixed in Maverick.