The indicator-appelt does not show a green mark if a new e-mail is available

that's very interesting, because for me it works correctly as you described the Empathy behaviour. I think this is an upstream problem. Let's hope it's fixed in Karmic :)

I don't know how to do this, but I think we should link this bug to the
indicator-applet package in Ubuntu Karmic, as it seems there's something
wrong.

On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 13:58, Alexander Hungenberg <
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> that's very interesting, because for me it works correctly as you
> described the Empathy behaviour. I think this is an upstream problem.
> Let's hope it's fixed in Karmic :)
>
> ** Changed in: gm-notify
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
> --
> The indicator-appelt does not show a green mark if a new e-mail is
> available
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/438149
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Marked as also affecting indicator-applet.

Come to think of it, it is possible that this bug was introduced (at least for me) after applying the patch that fixes Bug #433412.
Before experiencing Bug #433412, which made me unable to use gm-notify, the indicator-applet-icon showed a green mark after gm-notify had notified me of new mail. But after applying the patch to Bug #433412 - which enabled me to get gm-notify to run again - the green mark doesn't appear any more. I'm including the content of the patch to Bug #433412 below because it is relatively small, in case it can help someone:

--- gm-notify.py 2009-09-26 10:48:54.156708360 +0200
+++ gm-notify.py.new 2009-09-26 10:52:56.272561344 +0200
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@
         increased by one. The indicator is stored in a class-list to keep the reference.
         If you delete this the indicator will be removed from the applet, too'''

- new_indicator = indicate.IndicatorMessage()
+ new_indicator = indicate.Indicator()
         new_indicator.set_property("subtype", "mail")
         new_indicator.set_property("sender", msg)
         new_indicator.show()

1. The appearance of the icon changed with the new icon set.
2. The V2 API requires you to explicitely set a property to call for the user attention, whereas the previous (jaunty) model was setting that for your automatically

I'm changing the status of this bug to Confirmed, because it seems - as David Barth says - to be caused by gm-notify not having updated its code after the notification API was updated.

mmh, does anybody has an idea where I can find some doc about the new API - I would really like to make it correctly working with karmic...

I am not good at coding... but you can maybe finde some info here:
http://blog.garethj.com/2009/10/indicator-applet-api-changes-in-ubuntu-9-10/

It seems it should be added:
new_indicator.set_property('draw-attention', 'true');

I have tried it and it works.

As said above, adding

    new_indicator.set_property('draw-attention', 'true');

after

    new_indicator.show()

in addIndicator() seems to do the trick. I've attached the patch. Works for me at least.

Alexander; here's the only official documentation I could find on it: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MessagingMenu

fixed in current trunk