On Wed, 2014-03-05 at 20:04 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
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GTK+ (2 or 3) | You must use Canonical's libappindicator, which is
| interoperable with the KDE implementation. It is
| already packaged in Fedora. Several GTK+ packages
| already support it, for those, it is only a matter
| of adding the BuildRequires (libappindicator-devel
| for GTK+ 2, libappindicator-gtk3-devel for GTK+ 3).
| For some others, patches to add libappindicator
| support are available from Ubuntu.
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Of course, you can also just stop using status icons and instead inform
the user with notifications when something requires his immediate
attention. That will work under any desktop.