Comment 6 for bug 200432

I just played a bit with my patch and it is not working that well, somehow the eventbox is not redrawn correctly sometimes, and this causes the applet to hang. Unfortunatly pygtk is not easy to debug.

Another solution just came in my mind: what bout using cairo? - what about only using the icon without the number and dynamically create an cairo overlay containing the number. I'm not sure if this works and if this solve the remaining issue.
(Note: this would add a python-cairo dependency)

Markus