http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28445
--- Comment #5 from Austin English austinenglish@gmail.com 2011-09-20 14:04:09 CDT --- (In reply to comment #4)
Yes, it happens with system tray icons. I could rule out KDE if you could name any linux application which is constantly changing icons in the tray. Not like it changes once in an hour but rather a 2-3 changes per second.
Xchat blinks on notifications every second or two.