Comment 52 for bug 974480

Chris Giltnane and Ed Guenter: If you are under the impression that switching to RHEL will preserve the notification area, you should know that you'll just be jumping from one melting ice floe to another. <https://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Design/Guidelines/MessageTray/Compatibility>

Ma Xiaojun: IBus's notification area item should be supplanted by the text entry menu. <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TextEntry#Menu>

Jakob Schmitt: According to bug 497883, Vino has had an indicator menu since August 2010.