Read this if your package includes a status notifier / system tray icon

[Matthias Clasen]

On Thu, 2014-03-06 at 00:07 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:

> That was the excuse for not supporting the spec in GNOME Shell:
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2010-January/011228.html
> A very bad excuse, considering that, as I pointed out, the spec GNOME 
> proposes using instead (the Galago spec) is worse when it comes to that!

Please stop rewriting history. The spec was proposed, flaws were pointed
out in the review, and there was no willingness to address those flaws
in any meaningful way.

You can consider it an 'excuse' all you want, but from my perspective,
it was the right decision.