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[Avi Greenbury <1243240@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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 since I
can't have the top one hiding I'd much rather put stuff there than give
away more screen space to different bars.

Assuming, though, that the 'proper' way to do this is to have the bar at
the top containing things that look like indicators but that are
actually buttons for menus, and the bar on the left containing icons
that are also indicators, I'm guessing this workaround from your
perspective is less a bodge and more how i'm expected to be using this?

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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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