Comment 2 for bug 200432

In case somebody adds more than 5 bugs, the blue icon could be counting upwards again.
The icon changes after user interaction, so I think it's not really disturbing, but rather motivating.

add-5-a-day could be converted into a Python class and provide an interface for such actions ("status"). On the other hand, grepping the user's file works, too - add-5-a-day already does something similar when looking for bugs that have been added already on that day.