Comment 10 for bug 773979

I am not an user of gnome 3, so what I am just asking may be obvious to others.

You say "Gnome designers decided they didn't want third-party applications in their panel at all".

Does this mean that apps like skype, wuala, jitsy that require system tray icons cannot be used at all in gnome 3? I cannot believe this. Does this mean that gnome 3 whitelists specific applications like ubuntu does? This also seems strange to me since it means that any app that the developers forgot to whitelist results broken.

Indeed, it is this the main issue with ubuntu. Breaking all those applications that are not whitelisted and handling to the user the responsibility to fix the whitelist by using textual tools that are by no means friendly to the unexperienced ones.

So in case gnome has a better strategy to the 'blacklisted by default, explicitly whitelisted', probably ubuntu should consider it.

At least why not using an auto-whitelisting?

For instance. I need to run app XYZ that is not whitelisted by default. The first time I run it and it tries to set up an icon on the system tray, I get a notification like "Application XYZ trying to use the system tray. This is deprecated and the application should be fixed. Consider filing a bug report about the application. In the meantime Ubuntu will work around the issue". After this, the application gets automatically whitelisted (possibly with a timing mechanism... e.g. whitelisted for 30 days).