>     TL;DR:
>     Running applications in the background is a valid use, and we'd like to 
> improve on what we have. We don't think legacy status icons are a good 
> pattern and discourage their use.
> 
> 
> Yeah, I think this is what I was remembering, not specifically legacy status 
> icons which as you correctly said has a number of flaws.  Strangely, I don't 
> really miss the tray icons..  So, victory?
> 

I agree that your target is good and that ideally we would not need the tray.

But I do miss a replacement, seriously, without TopIcons I would not be using 
Gnome.
I am not alone, just look at the popularity of topicons and topicons plus and 
read the comments.
So, no, not really a victory.



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