Acme in the panel notification area does not "notify" of anything and there
is no interface to directly control or interact with acme from the panel
notification area.  

So it seems there is no reason for acme to be in the panel notification
area at all.  All it does is indicate that it is running and if that were
reason enough to warrant a notification applet, then why should we not have
notification applets for gnome-session, or esd?  

The fact that apps like mozilla do this in windows also makes no sense
since they could be run as services in the mozilla configuration.  The idea
of a panel notification area or systray is really cool but the way it is
abuse in windows is most annoying.  Notification is cool for notification
and apps that you can interact with from there like: xmms, ryhthmbox,
firestarter (for notification), up2date, etc.  I guess for other big apps
that you have running in the background it might also be cool just as a
reminder that there is a huge memory eating app going (like norton) but
acme is pretty small and I can't imaging that anyone would not want it
running or care that it was running just as long as their multimedia keys
worked like they expected.  

Acme doesn't seem like something that should be visible at all.  There
should just be the ability to configure it and it should just be on and
work by default.  Again, going back to the esd comparison, why should
anyone want a notification that something as basic as their sound is
working (or keyboard in this case).

(at least make turning off the panel notification optional in gconf)