Comment 6 for bug 450398

Actually what I meant was that, particularly as long as humanity is restricted to black and white non-animated icons, there is probably not much they can do about this, so I was suggesting a way that indicator applet could do so instead: keeping a short floating text of the sort that indicator applet manages anyway (it is indicator applet that is responsible for those, isn't it?), saying something like "You have new messages" and making sure that it is on-screen whenever there are unread messages and no other floating texts to be shown.

This is definitely not something the humanity icon theme can do. I think (please tell me if I am wrong) that it is something indicator applet can do. And of course, only you people can say whether it is something that indicator applet is ever likely to do :)