Comment 2 for bug 135816

With the older EggTrayIcon it used to be possible to add text to the notification area. GTimeLog does it: http://mg.pov.lt/gtimelog/trac/browser/gtimelog.py#L714

The downside, of course, is that you can't place the notification icon anywhere you want, like you can with an applet.

How about making weather-wallpaper extract the location from the weather-applet gconf key, so you won't have to configure your location in two places?