As I re-read my bug report I decided that I needed to have an easier way for developers to quickly see what I'm referencing. I made some animated gif's which makes this far easier to quickly tell the difference. There are two animated gif's. One is with the "backgrounds on open applications only" as well as "colored edges." That way you can see how different options look similar or different.
In both scenarios I was using Skype as an example. One slide shows Skype with no unread messages, the next shows Skype with an unread message (aka, needing attention). You can clearly see how crazy similar each gif is with both no unread messages vs unread messages available (aka application needs attention). This is extremely difficult for users to quickly decipher, did I get a message? Do I need to check that application? It was far, far easier in 13.10 and below to quickly tell the difference. Examples: http://oi62.tinypic.com/nxjgh3.jpg http://oi59.tinypic.com/21mi1w0.jpg Of course, this would be less of an issue if all applications that are built on any sort of messaging platform (whether it be email, instant messaging applications, webapps such as gmail, twitter, etc) would properly utilize the numbering system for alerts. What I'm referencing is when you get a new message on, say, Empathy, and a "1" shows up overtop of the Empathy icon on the Unity bar. Unfortunately this seems to be broken in 14.04, as I reported here (take note of the Pidgin icon with the "2" on the icon within the included screenshot of this report): https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1304186 But as it stands now, that integration isn't working and the highlighting differences are too similar to tell if an application has a highlight without having the Unity icons absolutely huge. Again, thank you very much for your time and dedication. I just wanted to make sure that my report was as accurate and easy to understand as possible. :) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1304073 Title: 14.04 Unity pips (white dots in bar) are now too small. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1304073/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
