Comment 7 for bug 391056

You might want to know that, thanks to GAPI [1], it's very easy to wrap gnome-panel's notification area widget [2] and reuse it. I've actually done that as part of my rather lame pet project (not yet related with gnome-do) [3]. It seems quite solid and probably better than reinventing the wheel (and a dead spec; see the latest KDE work in this area).

[1] http://mono-project.com/GAPI
[2] http://git.gnome.org/cgit/gnome-panel/tree/applets/notification_area
[3] http://kotlenga.name/hg/do-interface-kiss/file/tip/tray