Neary: GNOME Census

GNOME Shell wont have applets and this has been announced and explained a long time back. Regardless of the justification of that decision, it is no surprise to anyone. I don't have a problem with distributions shipping custom applets and patching applications to support a different API but if it is going to be part of an upstream community like GNOME, it requires more upfront discussions or the distribution will have to pay the cost (and reap the benefits) of the divergence.