diff --git a/item/Main.hs b/item/Main.hs
--- a/item/Main.hs
+++ b/item/Main.hs
@@ -44,5 +44,5 @@
                 <> progDesc "Run a static StatusNotifierItem"
                 )
   buildItem itemParams
-  void getChar
+  void $ getChar
 
diff --git a/src/StatusNotifier/Host/Service.hs b/src/StatusNotifier/Host/Service.hs
--- a/src/StatusNotifier/Host/Service.hs
+++ b/src/StatusNotifier/Host/Service.hs
@@ -92,6 +92,7 @@
   , iconPixmaps :: ImageInfo
   , overlayIconPixmaps :: ImageInfo
   , menuPath :: Maybe ObjectPath
+  , itemIsMenu :: Bool
   } deriving (Eq, Show)
 
 supressPixelData info =
@@ -175,6 +176,7 @@
         idString <- doGetDef Nothing $ getMaybe I.getId
         status <- doGetDef Nothing $ getMaybe I.getStatus
         category <- doGetDef Nothing $ getMaybe I.getCategory
+        itemIsMenu <- doGetDef False I.getItemIsMenu
         return ItemInfo
                  { itemServiceName = busName_ name
                  , itemId = idString
@@ -189,6 +191,7 @@
                  , menuPath = menu
                  , overlayIconName = overlayIName
                  , overlayIconPixmaps = overlayPixmap
+                 , itemIsMenu = itemIsMenu
                  }
 
       createAll serviceNames = do
diff --git a/src/StatusNotifier/Watcher/Service.hs b/src/StatusNotifier/Watcher/Service.hs
--- a/src/StatusNotifier/Watcher/Service.hs
+++ b/src/StatusNotifier/Watcher/Service.hs
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@
 
       isStatusNotifierHostRegistered = not . null <$> readMVar notifierHosts
 
-      protocolVersion = return 1 :: IO Int32
+      protocolVersion = return 0 :: IO Int32
 
       filterDeadService :: String -> MVar [ItemEntry] -> IO [ItemEntry]
       filterDeadService deadService mvar = modifyMVar mvar $
diff --git a/status-notifier-item.cabal b/status-notifier-item.cabal
--- a/status-notifier-item.cabal
+++ b/status-notifier-item.cabal
@@ -1,13 +1,11 @@
 cabal-version: 1.12
 
--- This file has been generated from package.yaml by hpack version 0.33.0.
+-- This file has been generated from package.yaml by hpack version 0.34.4.
 --
 -- see: https://github.com/sol/hpack
---
--- hash: 873456e7569825628558a592c99b8325a613aaceda502b15b5bfd3b89ebbc4a3
 
 name:           status-notifier-item
-version:        0.3.0.5
+version:        0.3.1.0
 synopsis:       A wrapper over the StatusNotifierItem/libappindicator dbus specification
 description:    Please see the README on Github at <https://github.com/IvanMalison/status-notifier-item#readme>
 category:       Desktop
diff --git a/xml/StatusNotifierItem.xml b/xml/StatusNotifierItem.xml
--- a/xml/StatusNotifierItem.xml
+++ b/xml/StatusNotifierItem.xml
@@ -1,56 +1,111 @@
+<!-- Based on:
+     https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/knotifications/-/blob/master/src/org.kde.StatusNotifierItem.xml
+     https://github.com/ubuntu/gnome-shell-extension-appindicator/blob/master/interfaces-xml/StatusNotifierItem.xml
+-->
+
 <node name="/StatusNotifierItem">
   <interface name="org.kde.StatusNotifierItem">
+
     <property name="Category" type="s" access="read"/>
     <property name="Id" type="s" access="read"/>
     <property name="Title" type="s" access="read"/>
     <property name="Status" type="s" access="read"/>
     <property name="WindowId" type="i" access="read"/>
-    <property name="Menu" type="o" access="read" />
 
+    <!-- An additional path to add to the theme search path to find the icons specified above. -->
+    <property name="IconThemePath" type="s" access="read"/>
+    <property name="Menu" type="o" access="read"/>
+    <property name="ItemIsMenu" type="b" access="read"/>
+
+
     <!-- main icon -->
     <!-- names are preferred over pixmaps -->
-    <property name="IconName" type="s" access="read" />
-    <property name="IconThemePath" type="s" access="read" />
+    <property name="IconName" type="s" access="read"/>
 
-    <!-- struct containing width, height and image data-->
-    <!-- implementation has been dropped as of now -->
-    <property name="IconPixmap" type="a(iiay)" access="read" />
+    <!--struct containing width, height and image data-->
+    <property name="IconPixmap" type="a(iiay)" access="read">
+      <annotation name="org.qtproject.QtDBus.QtTypeName" value="KDbusImageVector"/>
+    </property>
 
-    <!-- not used in ayatana code, no test case so far -->
     <property name="OverlayIconName" type="s" access="read"/>
-    <property name="OverlayIconPixmap" type="a(iiay)" access="read" />
 
+    <property name="OverlayIconPixmap" type="a(iiay)" access="read">
+      <annotation name="org.qtproject.QtDBus.QtTypeName" value="KDbusImageVector"/>
+    </property>
+
+
     <!-- Requesting attention icon -->
     <property name="AttentionIconName" type="s" access="read"/>
 
     <!--same definition as image-->
-    <property name="AttentionIconPixmap" type="a(iiay)" access="read" />
+    <property name="AttentionIconPixmap" type="a(iiay)" access="read">
+      <annotation name="org.qtproject.QtDBus.QtTypeName" value="KDbusImageVector"/>
+    </property>
 
+    <property name="AttentionMovieName" type="s" access="read"/>
+
+
+
     <!-- tooltip data -->
+
     <!--(iiay) is an image-->
-    <property name="ToolTip" type="(sa(iiay)ss)" access="read" />
+    <property name="ToolTip" type="(sa(iiay)ss)" access="read">
+      <annotation name="org.qtproject.QtDBus.QtTypeName" value="KDbusToolTipStruct"/>
+    </property>
 
+
+    <!-- interaction: the systemtray wants the application to do something -->
+    <method name="ContextMenu">
+      <!-- we're passing the coordinates of the icon, so the app knows where to put the popup window -->
+      <arg name="x" type="i" direction="in"/>
+      <arg name="y" type="i" direction="in"/>
+    </method>
+
     <method name="Activate">
       <arg name="x" type="i" direction="in"/>
       <arg name="y" type="i" direction="in"/>
     </method>
+
     <method name="SecondaryActivate">
       <arg name="x" type="i" direction="in"/>
       <arg name="y" type="i" direction="in"/>
     </method>
+
     <method name="Scroll">
       <arg name="delta" type="i" direction="in"/>
-      <arg name="dir"   type="s" direction="in"/>
+      <arg name="orientation" type="s" direction="in"/>
     </method>
 
-    <signal name="NewTitle"></signal>
-    <signal name="NewIcon"></signal>
-    <signal name="NewIconThemePath"></signal>
-    <signal name="NewAttentionIcon"></signal>
-    <signal name="NewOverlayIcon"></signal>
-    <signal name="NewToolTip"></signal>
-    <signal name="NewStatus"></signal>
+    <!-- Signals: the client wants to change something in the status-->
+    <signal name="NewTitle">
+    </signal>
 
+    <signal name="NewIcon">
+    </signal>
+
+    <signal name="NewAttentionIcon">
+    </signal>
+
+    <signal name="NewOverlayIcon">
+    </signal>
+
+    <signal name="NewToolTip">
+    </signal>
+
+    <signal name="NewStatus">
+      <!-- TODO: handle arg properly -->
+      <!-- <arg name="status" type="s"/> -->
+    </signal>
+
+    <!-- The following items are not supported by specs, but widely used -->
+    <signal name="NewIconThemePath">
+      <!-- TODO: handle arg properly -->
+      <!-- <arg type="s" name="icon_theme_path" direction="out" /> -->
+    </signal>
+
+    <signal name="NewMenu">
+    </signal>
+
     <!-- ayatana labels -->
     <signal name="XAyatanaNewLabel">
       <arg type="s" name="label" direction="out" />
@@ -58,5 +113,6 @@
     </signal>
     <property name="XAyatanaLabel" type="s" access="read" />
     <property name="XAyatanaLabelGuide" type="s" access="read" />
+
   </interface>
 </node>