** Changed in: indicator-messages (Ubuntu)
Status: Triaged = Confirmed
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Title:
It is unclear what sort of unread message is being
A workaround is to use Empathy rather than Pidgin (which is now the
default anyway) and to not autohide the thingy on the left with the
icons in it. I then get an icon for each messaging app there, along with
a number of unread emails.
That does cost more screen than the top bar does, though, and
[...] I'm guessing this workaround from your perspective is less a
bodge and more how i'm expected to be using this?
I would say so, yes.
If having the messaging menu in addition bothers you, you can hide it by
disabling it in every application that uses it right now.
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Status: New = Confirmed
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Thanks for reporting this bug. I don't think having a separate indicator
for each application is something we want. It clutters the panel with
colored icons and would lead to lots of menus with very few items.
Note that bug #906043 is similar to this one. It's about making it more
obvious which
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
