[xubuntu-users] Notification Area or indcator apllet to be gone in future?

[Joshua O'Leary]

On 19/07/12 20:11, Lee Gold wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I heard the Notification Area will not be in upcoming versions of
> Ubuntu. I tried to another distro with just Gnome and it was still
> there, so I assume it's not an Xfce thing. Is it true they will be
> taking it out?
>
> Just my opinion but I can't stand it and tried other distros in a quest
> to rid myself of little squished icons in a little squished space ie.
> the notification area, or indicator plugin or what ever it is _ I'm
> confused...
>
> But all Gnome based distros seem to have it. So I'm back with Xubuntu -
> which has the least things wrong with it.
>
> Just my opinion.
>
If your so fussed about icon sizes, why not install KDE? It uses more 
resources, but has scalable widgets and panels that can be adapted to 
fit the size you want.