Vala Panel is a desktop panel written in Vala and Gtk3.
Initially it was a fork of LXPanel but 0.2.0 is completely rewritten in Vala.
It offers same functionality as LXPanel but:
* It has a slightly bigger memory usage.
* X11 dependency is stripped from panel core (but it is not tested on another display servers, such as Wayland and Mir, right now).
* Some of former LXPanel plugins are separate binaries now and live in another packages (volume applet for example).

StatusNotifierItem is the new D-Bus standard for system tray.

Outdated program, it is recommended to use xournalpp instead!