Comment 9 for bug 319152

I definitely agree with you that egg.trayicon is the lazier way and bad, but my bigger concern is that a Gnome applet does not use the notification area. At least not in the examples that I've seen (so far).

So the question becomes whether the notification area is the important part or not.

What does that make NetworkManager? It seems to be an applet, but is in the notification area. :/

As a side note I see that Tasque uses a Gtk.StatusIcon (Mono Gtk bindings) which is shown in the notification area. I have no idea what the equivalent in the Python bindings is, though.