Comment 41 for bug 206547

True, it is not the ONLY way to get the user's attention.

However, the current one (a small icon on the corner of the screen) is an *incredibly bad one*.

It's not just my opinion of the ones of all the people who's complained on this issue in this bug, but it's been well documented here https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EmpathyVsPidginUsability

Personally the first thing i do is indeed to install pidgin, however i think it's terribly bad for ubuntu as a whole to be inflicting empathy on new users in it's current state. Keep in mind first impressions count alot, so software that is installed by default should work well.

Which is why i think it should be either fixed by providing some kind of notification that is more efficient, or otherwise it shouldn't be the default one in ubuntu