[wishlist] More informational tray icon (Number of unread messages)

The GNOME community's decision to deprecate the egg TrayIcon and replace it with the GTK+ StatusIcon has imposed significant limitations on how the notification area can be used. It's not possible to display anything beside the icon anymore. In order to display the number, I'd have to render it as an overlay on top of the icon, which would partially obscure the icon itself. I think that would have a detrimental impact on usability.

If someone wants to implement support for putting an unread message count in the icon tooltip, I'm willing to commit that.

Would it be possible to display a different version of the icon when there are unread messages? That, in conjunction with an unread count tooltip would incredibly helpful for those of us that do not want to permanently dedicate desktop real estate to gwibber, but to display it only when it warrants our attention:

1. Notice changed icon
2. Roll over icon to see how many unread messages there are
3. Click on icon to display Gwibber
4. Read stuff
5. Click on icon to hide Gwibber
6. Whistle a happy tune :-)

On Thursday 02 April 2009 15:35:33 Ed Bailey wrote:
> Would it be possible to display a different version of the icon when there are unread messages?

Since every Desktop Environment is working towards to removing icons from the system system tray, I dough very much this would even be done.

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For those of you who are on Ubuntu, you will soon have full support for the messaging-indicator applet, which will give you a very clear visual notification when there are unread replies and it will also show the number of unread replies along with icons and sender names in its drop-down menu.

For those of you who aren't on Ubuntu, I eventually plan to add support for an alternate icon which will be displayed in the tray when there are unread replies, as @Ed has requested.

Thanks for the quick response; I'll look forward to that alternate icon (when it makes it to the top of the wishlist, of course)!

On Thursday 02 April 2009 15:35:33 Ed Bailey wrote:
> Would it be possible to display a different version of the icon when there are unread messages?

Since every Desktop Environment is working towards to removing icons from the system system tray, I dough very much this would even be done.

@BUGabundo: I *just* said that I would do it. Please don't put contradictory information in here.

I may have missed something, but on my installation of Gwibber 2.31.1 on Linux Mint there's no icon in the notification area at all. All I have is an entry in the taskbar

On Thursday 02 April 2009 15:35:33 Ed Bailey wrote:
> Would it be possible to display a different version of the icon when there are unread messages?

I would love that! Seemse kinda stupid not to have that funcion, and its the only thing that keeps me from using Gwibber.

I just merged in updated support for messaging menu indicators which display unseen counts for Messages, Replies, and Private. The counters could also be used to add similar support for the tray icon.