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Mark, I full appreciate your position and agree with direction, but you need to understand that this change would push nearly all enterprise users back to RedHat or even to things like Mint.
2009 is recent in enterprise terms, so spare a thought for those apps which have yet to be revisited for ubuntu updates (let alone those unlikely to have ubuntu-specific coding performed).
What is needed here is a cross-platform approach to allowing this sort of notification, so that developers aren't coding systray for windows, notification area for rhel, and new notifications for ubuntu. If you aren't building that, then you are walling off developers that aren't willing to spend time coding for a specific distribution, and you will find most of those will walk away...
I realise that is a hard goal to achieve, but don't make the mistake of forcing a new world without allowing the old to exist sensibly - Users won't appreciate it either, and Unity is having enough problems with rejection as it is already.