Comment 10 for bug 841116

Ok. I realize, this is not really a bug. Let me nevertheless (ab)use this platform to (1.) bring up one spontaneous idea about how the problem could be solved and (2.) state the reason why I perceive it as problem.

1. Why not use 2 or even more colors? blue for mails, green for irc, yellow for im's, etc...

1b. Another solution would probably be to NOT share the menu with real-time messaging clients. Let them have their own (removable) menu. I don't use any of them and I'm not very pleased that they seem to be getting in the way here.

1c. Alternatively, could you make that "if (..." line you quoted user-configurable, for example through another one or more thunderbird "about:config"-variables? (And could you document the variables ;-) ?) This would already fully address my issues.

2. The reason why, after recently upgrading from natty to oneiric, I have been a bit disappointed when the mail icon didn't "turn blue" on arrival of new messages, was that I (had to) "manually" (a)) set this up to work in natty and was hoping that it would work out of the box in oneiric. So my first impression upon upgrade was actually: "I can't believe that after so many years of free software being available on the desktop it seems still not possible to be notified about new mail." I consider this one of the most basic tasks that an operating system should do for me!

a) With the help of a receipt build of xul-thunderbird-notify-something, deployed to my ppa. It worked great, and I should say "thanks a lot! great work!" to the launchpad architects, but it is still a bit a lot of work involved for a mere end-user like me.