Comment 4 for bug 519553

Just throwing in my 2¢: this is a glaring usability issue. My girlfriend has removed the entire notification area because she thought she had two "speaker" icons (she was a fresh Ubuntu user at the time, and nm-applet with wireless looked like another volume control) so she innocently right-clicked, "Remove from panel" one of them.

I'm sure there are other (mis)use cases.