Comment 7 for bug 1283775

I hate to sound abrasive as I too, like mentioned above, am an Ubuntu fan, but I'm somewhat surprised to see this hasn't been addressed yet. I'm finding it to be a common question that comes up as users want to know how to tell when an application needs attention. "You mean that faint line color is how I see that I just got a message??" (caused by the mismatched highlight) or "I can't see the dots to see how many firefoxes I have open. How do I adjust it?" I understand this issue was fixed in another report for 7.2.1, but A) where is it? And B) why on earth was this not pushed ASAP? As somebody who lives in the Ubuntu world I can tell you it's not a small frustration by any stretch. Given the fact this makes for a less consistent feeling interface, this turns into a hard sell for users who are used to the nice orange glow of the windows 7 icons needing attention or the continually bouncing icons in osx. That brings up another point as the icon highlights are a far cry from convenient when alerting users they just received a message. On screen popup is great but what about when I wasn't present when I received the message and come back a minute later? It needs to be more obvious without question. The envelope is no where near a logical answer either since few applications support it, plus it makes no sense to look on the upper right side to the envelope just to tell what application from the left side unity bar needs attention. Surely that should raise an eyebrow...