Comment 19 for bug 392265

Yesterday I worked for all the afternoon without even knowing there were new messages for me to read, as at a fast glance the small icon is almost the same...

As stated in bug #450825 the new notification icons are not meant to remove all the colors from there, but to use colors to grab the user attention (eg. red for errors and warnings).
Now, I think that when new messages are present and unread, the notification has to grab the user attention: it's what it is meant to do. Obviously, red is not an option, as it would not be a warning, but why can't we use yellow or green for indicator-messages-new icon? With low brightness and saturation, it would still be unobtrusive but could attract the attention of the user interested in knowing if there are new messages.