Comment 3 for bug 500053

Re-affecting to lxpanel and indicator-applet.
In fact, lxpanel need a plugin to host the indicators, like the indicator-applet for gnome-panel. It can be build in lxpanel (as a standart plugin, forking the indicator-applet) or in indicator-applet (as an external plugin for lxpanel).

I may have a testing hack (using solution 1) shortly. But lxpanel is not the only panel which can have indicator supports, so maybe there is a universal solution in progress.