Comment 26 for bug 540490

So, here's the plan for new behavior I'm going to implement:

Clicking on any item in the indicator menu brings up the Liferea window and removes *all* subitems from the indicator menu, leaving only the main "Liferea" one.
If the main item is clicked, the window is shown in the state it had when last closed/minimized/deactivated.
If one of the subitems is clicked, its corresponding feed is selected.
The indicator menu is not updated as long as the Liferea window is active. For example, pressing the update button in the window itself and leaving it in the foreground will not highlight the indicator icon.

As for the setting... I'm really not keen of the idea of introducing non-upstream-compatible gconf keys for something comparatively trivial like this. Ultimately, it depends on what the core developers want to do, since upstream doesn't want a patch for Ubuntu-specific features.