Comment 336 for bug 332945

I agree with mb_webguy.
The new indicator-applet seems to be created to replace the notification area. Currently it only displays Pidgin's notifications (at least for me).
The problem with this approach is that the indicator applet is good only if it displays the notifications coming from a single application. Why? Because there is only a single icon for it displaying that "something happened" now how should I know from which application the notification comes from? I must click that icon for that information. This I consider bad usability comparing to what we had until now, when I could clearly tell just by looking at it that Pidgin or some other app with its own icon there wants to notify me about something.
Simply there are applications which I want to be running all the time, but do not want them to take up place in my window list or task bar. So the notification area is a perfectly good place for them. Maybe we should stop calling it notification area, and give it another name. Maybe it would be nice to have two of these areas: one for system controls like changing the volume, displaying CPU temperature, etc. and one for the programs the user starts like Pidgin, or some email client, etc.

The perfect solution for this problem (for me) would be that we have a transient notification using notify-osd, and a persistent one by displaying the well-known yellow updates are ready icon in the notification area.
<sarcasm>Wait! Isn't that what we had until now, minus the notify-osd popup?</sarcasm>
Don't fix what ain't broke! Especially if the new solution isn't better.