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The count displayed in the unity launcher icon is a total unseen count of messages, replies, and private messages. It should be a total of all unseen from all streams. Right now it is calculating that the same way the messaging menu does, which displays messages, replies, and private messages.
I think it might be better to do the same thing for both, and display a total unseen for all streams.
In regard to which stream is selected by default, in the past gwibber did default to selecting the all messages tab. However, lots of people complained because it included streams like links, which for facebook at least, includes posts from facebook games. So depending who your friends are, lots of noise there. The rationale behind to changing that to default to "messages" was it was really a stream of your friends "status updates". Which is something people seem most interesting in seeing. I am not opposed to changing it back to default to all messages, but we need some consensious on that, we can't make everyone happy.
In general we need to spend some time looking at what we call the streams, we have generalized them between all the services, but "messages" isn't really messages, it is "status updates".