I can confirm the bug on Natty. The bug itself depends on an icon theme — for example, it works with Faenza and Gnome-colors.
As a workaround, I deleted pidgin icons from these themes — this cause pidgin to use the default icon, which is working fine. Please reopen. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/392382 Title: Blink tray icon setting doesn't work in Ubuntu Linux -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs