Thanks; I don't think separate indicators are necessarily the right solution, but having one icon for all sorts of messages is unworkable for me; I respond differently to IMs than I do emails. I'm also not advocating this be a default, but it might be nice to configure it to have one icon per member of the menu, for example.
While noting that bug #906043 is similar, I don't think these share solutions - the bulk of the problem I have is that I need to open the menu to find out what the icon means, which I don't think should be necessary. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to indicator-messages in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: dx-packages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1243240 Title: It is unclear what sort of unread message is being indicated Status in “indicator-messages” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: The envelope in my top bar thingy is grey when I have no unread messages and blue when I have some unread messages. There's no apparent way to discern between unread email messages and unread jabber messages without clicking on it and looking at the drop-down. There is also no apparent way to split these up into more than one indicator. Even if we assume that this must also work on incredibly narrow monitors, there are surely enough monitors wide enough to accept more than one of these indicators that it would be worth having the option of doing so? This is true of at least 13.04 and 13.10. Attached is a screenshot, showing either unread emails, unread IMs or both. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10 Package: indicator-messages 13.10.1+13.10.20131011-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-12.19-generic 3.11.3 Uname: Linux 3.11.0-12-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 Date: Tue Oct 22 15:34:47 2013 EcryptfsInUse: Yes InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-21 (1 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424) MarkForUpload: True SourcePackage: indicator-messages UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-10-21 (1 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-messages/+bug/1243240/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages Post to : dx-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp