> It seems that other applications use the "Unique DBus name" (example ":1.12") > only or service names which don't obey the naming rule.
Nice catch! I think that this is the fault of the "xembed-sni-proxy" that translates xembed programs to the SNI protocol. Native StatusNotifier programs like Konversation use "org.kde.StatusNotifierItem-PID-ID". So even for KDE's version of the protocol I think it's a bug. -Calvin Lee