Omer: thanks for your reply, but I have to respectfully disagree. If a
new desktop environment thinks it can wade in and expect every
application on earth to adapt to its new methods without providing some
form of transitional measure, that's somewhat arrogant.

Furthermore, surely, as Mike S. has said that Unity is supposed to be
zero conf., it makes no sense to have things not working "out of the
box". If Unity is the new default, how can it make sense to tell users:
"well, it's the default, I'm sorry, your applications will be buggy and
behave strangely for a year or so. It's because of a decision we made,
but it's actually their fault and they need to fix it." Not going to do
much for the project.

Instead: detect when an application tries to register for a system tray
icon. If it then asks to be removed from window list, why not simply not
act on this. This would provide a smooth transition that won't result in
user alienation.

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Title:
  Applications that use "close to system tray" are removed from
  launcher, but continue to run

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