Comment 32 for bug 206547

What's proposed here isn't simply nurturing an old model. Let me pose you this question. If when you received a telephone call your phone did not ring, but instead a small light turned on on the side of the handset, don't you think you would miss calls?

The nature of an IM client is fundamentally different to that of other programs. It demands an immediacy that a notification applet simply cannot provide. It's one area where I don't want my PC to stay out of the way.