Thats sad and a bit surprising too. Though I got this (sick) idea of having the configuration applet have a button, which would gather the album art from MAFW and batch process it to suitable icons. It'd take time, but since it would be in the applet and explicitly started by user, consuming time is no problem. Do you see problems with this approach?
I was merely meaning that some evaluation should be made if there is difference having the notifier as standalone daemon or to make it a plugin (without any icon/buttons). This way we could get rid of dsmetool and Xsession scripts and use more standard way. I also see very little advantage of having the statusmenu button for notifier. It requires user to actively seek it and is pretty much the same if user would go to desktop and look at mediaplayer widget which is showing the exact same things. Agree?