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As I re-read my bug report I decided that I needed to have an easier way
for developers to quickly see what I'm referencing. I made some animated
gif's which makes this far easier to quickly tell the difference. There
are two animated gif's. One is with the "backgrounds on open
applications only" as well as "colored edges." That way you can see how
different options look similar or different.

In both scenarios I was using Skype as an example. One slide shows Skype
with no unread messages, the next shows Skype with an unread message
(aka, needing attention).

You can clearly see how crazy similar each gif is with both no unread
messages vs unread messages available (aka application needs attention).
This is extremely difficult for users to quickly decipher, did I get a
message? Do I need to check that application? It was far, far easier in
13.10 and below to quickly tell the difference.

Examples:

http://oi62.tinypic.com/nxjgh3.jpg

http://oi59.tinypic.com/21mi1w0.jpg

Of course, this would be less of an issue if all applications that are
built on any sort of messaging platform (whether it be email, instant
messaging applications, webapps such as gmail, twitter, etc) would
properly utilize the numbering system for alerts. What I'm referencing
is when you get a new message on, say, Empathy, and a "1" shows up
overtop of the Empathy icon on the Unity bar. Unfortunately this seems
to be broken in 14.04, as I reported here (take note of the Pidgin icon
with the "2" on the icon within the included screenshot of this report):

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1304186

But as it stands now, that integration isn't working and the
highlighting differences are too similar to tell if an application has a
highlight without having the Unity icons absolutely huge.

Again, thank you very much for your time and dedication. I just wanted
to make sure that my report was as accurate and easy to understand as
possible. :)

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Title:
  14.04 Unity pips (white dots in bar) are now too small.

Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  On all 14.04 installs I've tinkered with so far they've all exhibited
  this behavior. The pips (white dots) next to the icons in the Unity
  bar are too small. I never noticed this before, so I went back to a
  13.10 install to compare. The pips on 14.04 are so small that they,
  quite frankly, feel useless. They need to be of adequate size in an
  effort to be easily seen by the user, regardless of the actual icon
  size.

  Take note of the size of the white pips on the Unity launcher in the
  following screenshots.

  https://www.dropbox.com/sh/mc4k4yyjm5nbbzk/4t6SgqVN8H

  Here's an alternative 'direct download' link to the images just in
  case: http://skynetcore.org/shared/pips.tar.gz

  In an effort to present an accurate comparison I included the following screenshots
  (note that 48 px on both 13.10 and 14.04 seem identical, it's just the smaller sizes that down-scale too far)
  13.10 - 32 px
  14.04 - 32 px

  13.10 - 48 px
  14.04 - 48 px

  I also included a 5th screenshot of 26 px in 14.04 in case it helps
  further show what I'm referencing.

  While scaling the size of the pips makes sense to a certain degree,
  the current behavior scales them far too small. I feel as though they
  should have (at minimal) a 13.10 oriented type of scaling so they are
  more easily viewable, and therefore, more useful. If they could be
  adjusted in size, that would be a monumental bonus as well, but I have
  a feeling that might be a stretch for the given time frame. :)

  Thank you for your time!

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: unity 7.2.0+14.04.20140403-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-23.45-generic 3.13.8
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-23-generic x86_64
  .tmp.unity.support.test.0:
   
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
  CompositorRunning: compiz
  CompositorUnredirectDriverBlacklist: '(nouveau|Intel).*Mesa 8.0'
  CompositorUnredirectFSW: true
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Mon Apr  7 17:41:39 2014
  DistUpgraded: Fresh install
  DistroCodename: trusty
  DistroVariant: ubuntu
  GraphicsCard:
   Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0116] (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
     Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device [1179:0009]
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-04-01 (6 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Daily amd64 (20140330)
  MachineType: TOSHIBA PORTEGE Z835
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-23-generic root=UUID=5d7f7158-1b5b-4946-9916-b8a0c2f59525 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
  SourcePackage: unity
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  dmi.bios.date: 02/08/2012
  dmi.bios.vendor: TOSHIBA
  dmi.bios.version: Version 1.60
  dmi.board.asset.tag: 0000000000
  dmi.board.name: Portable PC
  dmi.board.vendor: TOSHIBA
  dmi.board.version: Version A0
  dmi.chassis.asset.tag: 0000000000
  dmi.chassis.type: 10
  dmi.chassis.vendor: TOSHIBA
  dmi.chassis.version: Version 1.0
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnTOSHIBA:bvrVersion1.60:bd02/08/2012:svnTOSHIBA:pnPORTEGEZ835:pvrPT224U-013021:rvnTOSHIBA:rnPortablePC:rvrVersionA0:cvnTOSHIBA:ct10:cvrVersion1.0:
  dmi.product.name: PORTEGE Z835
  dmi.product.version: PT224U-013021
  dmi.sys.vendor: TOSHIBA
  version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.11+14.04.20140328-0ubuntu1
  version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A
  version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.52-1
  version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 10.1.0-4ubuntu1
  version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
  version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 10.1.0-4ubuntu1
  version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.15.0-1ubuntu7
  version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.8.2-1ubuntu2
  version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.3.0-1ubuntu3
  version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.910-0ubuntu1
  version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.10-1ubuntu2
  xserver.bootTime: Mon Apr  7 17:24:40 2014
  xserver.configfile: default
  xserver.errors:
   
  xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log
  xserver.outputs:
   
  xserver.version: 2:1.15.0-1ubuntu7

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