The Spotify indicator icon clashes with the native Unity theme, and is redundant, since it is already listed in the Sound indicator menu. Is there a way to remove or disable the Spotify indicator? Or at least to change the icon (couldn't grep it on my filesystem). I am using the Spotify "preview" with 12.04. Thanks!
For Spotify version 0.8.8 and earlier
The best way to do this is to remove the icon used by spotify to display the indicator. This can be done by executing the following command in the terminal,
sudo mv /usr/share/spotify/theme/other/_linux/icon.ico /home/user_name/icon.ico
Replace user_name with your user name. This should effectively disable the spotify indicator. Exit spotify and restart spotify to notice the change.
For versions higher than 0.8.8
open up a terminal and open the zip file as root:
gksu file-roller /opt/spotify/spotify-client/Data/resources.zip
Then, inside the zip file, navigate to the _linux subfolder and delete the .ico files inside it. That's it.
