KDE system tray progress
We've been slowly working away at getting the system tray in order. The goal is deceptively simple: allow us to host the entries there in a way that meshes with the rest of the user interface.
We also made the design decision to allow notifications to be hosted by the system tray applet. That has changed somewhat: the notifications agent is now a stand-alone Plasmoid, so you can put it anywhere you wish. By default, it lives with other items in the system tray, which is sort of a panel-in-a-panel (or a panel-on-the-desktop if you use it there). We've been working on making that more elegant for 4.5 as well.
Here is my system tray as of today's build of what will one day be KDE 4.5:
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