Messaging Indicator (was: Notifications: uselessness of)

[Scott Kitterman]

On Mon, 02 Mar 2009 09:17:20 -0600 Ted Gould <ted at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 11:45 +0000, (``-_-´´) -- BUGabundo wrote:
>> On Monday 02 March 2009 10:19:19 Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
>> > This will be handled by the new messaging menu.
>> 
>> What *new* messaging menu? 
>> Are there new stuff coming up that _we_ dont know about?
>> Can you please elaborate a bit more, so that we know what to expect?
>
>Currently it's configured for the default install, but the upgrade
>script has not be configured to put it in a current user's panel.  So if
>you'd like to add it you need right click on your panel and add
>"Indicator Applet".
>
>You should have it installed, but if not, you should install the
>indicator-messages package.
>
>This is a small menu that shows IMs that have come but you haven't seen
>and also mail messages.  You can open up a specific message by clicking
>on it in the menu.  You can also hide/show the Pidgin buddy list by
>using the menu item for it.
>
>The only two applications having patches to use the messaging menu today
>are Pidgin and Evolution.  Sadly it's progress has been hampered by
>language bindings as I was hoping to have more for the Jaunty
>release :-/
>
>Project page is here:
>
>   http://launchpad.net/indicator-applet/
>
>There is some documentation in the packages now, working on more.
>Questions/ideas/patches welcome :)

Couldn't some kind of indicator about available updates go here so they aren't hidden from users for up to a week?

Scott K