Comment 3 for bug 1685502

This bug has remained over the years. The problem is that both the "Notification area" and "Indicator plugin" panel items contain their own copy of the Network icon. Only the latter shows a mouse hover effect for it, so I assume it's the correct/preferable place to contain it.

A quick-fix is to remove both panel items, re-adding the Notification area first. As the Indicator plugin gets added, some check appears to happen which then removes the duplicate Network icon from the Notification area.

Unfortunately this fix doesn't last forever, and the logic is clearly fragile (it should be triggered under more conditions, e.g. on each startup.

I saw another suggestion about "clearing saved sessions" but I don't use sessions and it had no effect for me.