Comment 4 for bug 450398

After discussions around the human theme, I came to the conclusion that as long as they stick to a pure black-and-white icon set, there is not much they can do to fix this. An alternative, on the indicator applet side, might be for indicator applet to keep a short text floating "You have new messages" visible when there are new messages. I realise that one of the goals of indicator applet was to reduce floating bubble noise, but not to the point where messages go entirely unnoticed (I am still missing them). I realise that for various reasons this is not very likely to get into Karmic, but it may well still be relevant for Lucid, and I think that it would be a small amount of code (though probably more discussion) for a decent usability improvement.