Comment 3 for bug 194743

I have this problem too. I installed Alpha 5 on Feb 22nd from scratch (doing a cliean install). The tracker icon blinks constantly. It's been about 40 hours of mostly idle time.

This could be a bug on multiple levels - it could be that the icon is supposed to blink sometimes and not others and something has got it stuck in the mode where it blinks.

However, that the icon blinks at all is a bug. A blinking icon should rarely if ever be used and then only in cases where something really needs your attention. This is kind of like someone walking up to your desk and jumping up and down waving their hands at you. I can't imaging tracker *ever* needing to get my attention in this way.

(Note that power manager has an animated icon but only in so much as that the icon changes very slowly over time to show the state of your battery - this is far different than tracker which is a constant pulsing)