Icon instead of a blinking

[ElvisPresly]

Maybe you will make control that instead of a blinking there was an icon near date and hours that there are unread notices. Your expansion very important but irritates when constantly blinks. Thanks.

[bellini666]

@ElvisPresly it is a nice idea. In the mean time, if you don't like it blinking, what you can do is set the blink rate on the preferences to 0. That way it will only change the menu color with the one you choose.

[ElvisPresly]

For example here so

[jefferyto]

Just to expand on this a little, the date menu button in the panel already has an indicator (a circle icon, MessagesIndicator class in ui/dateMenu.js in the gnome-shell js code) that appears if more than 3 notifications (defined by MAX_NOTIFICATIONS_IN_QUEUE in ui/messageTray.js) are received at the same time.

The first 3 notifications will be shown, the remaining notifications will be "hidden" in the message tray, and the indicator will be shown. Once the user opens the message tray (and presumably sees the hidden notifications), the indicator is hidden.

Perhaps this indicator can be reused or built upon for this enhancement.

[mzur]

I have created a tiny extension that displays the messages indicator on any new message (not only on more than three messages). You could use the same code to enhance this extension.