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[Avi Greenbury <1243240@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.

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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)

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