[xubuntu-users] I have "Indicators" and "Notification Area" in my panel, are they both necessary?

[Chris Green]

On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 10:17:59AM +0100, flocculant at gmx.co.uk wrote:
> On 14/05/16 10:07, Chris Green wrote:
> > As per the subject I seem to have two items in my panel which serve
> > the same purpose.
> > 
> > "Indicators" has 'Application Indicators', 'Messaging
> > Menu' and 'Sound Menu' in it.
> > 
> > "Notification Area" has 'Owncloud', 'Xfce Power Manager', 'Network
> > Manager Applet', and four more.
> > 
> > The configuration GUI for both looks the same except for the name, are
> > these really different or has one got left over from an old version of
> > xubuntu?
> > 
> > Is it possible to clear this up?
> > 
> They are different entities.
> 
But why?  The GUI interface is identical (apart from the text) and
they seem to serve exactly the same purpose.

... not to mention that the interface doesn't make much sense anyway.
Why are there 16 items in the "Known Applications" area of Notification
Area but only 4 actually showing?  Also what does "Clear Known
Applications" do?

It's all a bit of a mess IMHO.

-- 
Chris Green