@pjotr123 Gnome is going to go through the same pain that KDE went through circa 4.0.
It doesn't matter, anyway. What everyone fails to realize is that FD.o _isn't_ a standards organization. It hosts specifications, and those specs are either picked up or not, similar to how the Internet formed via RFCs.
From that standpoint, "Hosting a document on the freedesktop.org wiki" and in FD.o's git is all that's required or even allowed. KDE uses StatusNotifier, and now Unity does, too. That makes it "cross-desktop" by definition. Since Ubuntu holds the majority of Linux users, more desktops are sure to follow.
Meanwhile, GNOME is off playing in its own sandbox. Heck, the devs don't even subscribe to FD.o. They obviously don't care about it.
SJVN -- The modern Linux desktop is a product of XDG and DBUS, You can thank FD.o for making it work.
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