SerJaySo do you happen to know of a fix for the disappearing menu notification button? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm guessing it had something to do with the Steampipe update, since the same issue popped up in 2.5 after said update.
I found a fix for it already. Basically, the notifications get hidden every time the (in my HUD invisible) news panel gets triggered. And if the news panel is invisible you can't close it, which means that every time Valve posted something on their blog, the notifications got hidden. I guess the last time this happened was on the "Robotic Boogaloo" update.
I fixed it by making only the close button on the news panel visible and changing its appearance to the button which toggles notifications, so when the news panel ever appears on its own again all you'll see is the notification button without a number on it, which on clicking will close the news panel and thus make the notifications visible again :)
sherman_gluckedit: forgot to click the install button on the crosshairs in resource/fonts
You don't have to install the fonts, they get included via clientscheme.res anyway. In fact, you must not install the fonts, cause if I ever update them and you have an old version installed, it will skip clientscheme.res and use the installed version instead.