Comment 28 for bug 599844

This minor update means that if show_flags is enabled the indicator will only show an icon. This emulates exactly the behavior of the notification-area icon as it currently exists upstream.

The reason for this is that the complaint of too much space being used is perfectly valid, and this makes it much easier for us to drop in a pack of icons, set the gconf key and have exactly what MPT wants as per the screenshot here; http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/7358/screenshotnw.png

which was attached to bug; https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/623435