Yesterday I worked for all the afternoon without even knowing there were
new messages for me to read, as at a fast glance the small icon is
almost the same...

As stated in bug #450825 the new notification icons are not meant to remove all 
the colors from there, but to use colors to grab the user attention (eg. red 
for errors and warnings).
Now, I think that when new messages are present and unread, the notification 
has to grab the user attention: it's what it is meant to do. Obviously, red is 
not an option, as it would not be a warning, but why can't we use yellow or 
green for indicator-messages-new icon? With low brightness and saturation, it 
would still be unobtrusive but could attract the attention of the user 
interested in knowing if there are new messages.

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"Unread Messages" icon is difficult to distinguish from default icon
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/392265
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