> Pidgin (which I also needed for work) wasn't allowed to have a tray icon Telepathy was but -- I still am annoyed about this more than a decade later -- it wa

> Pidgin (which I also needed for work) wasn't allowed to have a tray icon Telepathy was but -- I still am annoyed about this more than a decade later -- it wasn't allowed to actually indicate whether you had new messages or not, just that you had some notification from some app somewhere, and you had to drill down through your notifications to see it. It was just annoying, like when Gnome decided it would be hilarious to allow a laptop to not sleep when closed but only for 30 seconds. I have no idea why the Gnome devs chose to die on this hill.