Comment 9 for bug 23376

see the discussion related on http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=328549 :

"some applications make wrong use of notification area, and these applications should be fixed.

Sometimes, developers have reasons not to fix it : in nm-applet case, i remember that it has been said that nm-applet is not gnome-specific and that it
would be hard to change it into a real applet (instead of sitting in notification area) that would work on several desktop environments. Therefore,
if there is no neutral specification for creating an applet that would work as it in multiple environments, maybe that Freedesktop should have a specification that would describe how to make an applet for the desktop ? But it may be another debate

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2007-March/msg00057.html " (antistress)

and

" The only problem is, like antistress mentioned, that applets are not "standard" like notification icons, and as such there would be a need for the way to make an applet to be standardized by Freedesktop.org, or something. That would bring lots of benefits, not just for usability, but for code reusability across desktop environments." (Jean-François Fortin Tam)