I did a fresh rawhide install today and when I logged in, I was greeted with a message from ESC saying that it won't work with the notification area and that I should insert a token to activate it. Obviously, we don't want this error dialog to show up on every user's desktop when they log in.
Issue fixed as of build "esc-1.0.0-9". The message will not show up under any conditions.
Release Criteria matches 16.j
Closing out as resolved with the 20061111.0 trees.