📅 2013-Mar-20 ⬩ ✍️ Ashwin Nanjappa ⬩ 🏷️ indicator, panel, ubuntu ⬩ 📚 Archive
If you don't use a client for email or instant messaging, then you might find the Messages indicator (the envelope icon) in the Panel to be useless. Removing it is easy:
Uninstall the package named indicator-messages and log out and log in back.
Tried with: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS