...many, many more people click on the messaging menu in response to a changed indicator icon, under the impression that they have missed an instant message. When they open the menu and see (1) contacts they have actually received messages from, and (2) contacts who have merely recently signed on, much more confusion is created than the pain alleviated by placing (2) in the menu in the first place.
Furthermore, in my experience, most people only ever correspond with fewer than 10% of the contacts in their buddy list (this number is constantly going down as social networks explode and enable IM), so the signal-to-noise ratio is already at 1:9. -- indicator-applet briefly shows recently signed-on contacts, leading users to believe they are receiving "blank messages" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/497646 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
