The problem you're experiencing with the icons not showing up in the system notification area is because indicator-application-service is not stopped when you remove the applet. The consequence of that is that the applications still think they're being shown as an Application Indicator. As soon as the service dies the indicators will switch to fallback mode and should show up in the notification area.
-- Rhythmbox cannot be quickly opened from Indicator Applet https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/539426 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs