GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 462040
There's no icon message in the contact list
Last modified: 2008-11-01 13:48:52 UTC
When someone sends me a message, I see the notification icon blinking. But it's not happening in the contact list. I don't know if it's a choice or not, but you cannot assume there's a notification area.
Initially it was a choice because the chat windows were in a different process, so contact list didn't know that a contact gets a new message. Now I have one process and I'm considering adding that feature back.
*** Bug 487234 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I think we should split out of EmpathyStatusIcon the code for events and create an EmpathyEventManager. Like that status icon and contact list could both connect to some signals on the event manager to know when there is a new icoming message. It won't work if we split status icon and contact list into separate processes, in that case we need an improved chandler system in MC like the one proposed in MC spec draft.
*** Bug 498992 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 516199 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I splitted the code, we can use EmpathyFilter object to get notified when new conversation arrives. Fixing this bug is now gnome-love.
Patch available on my cl-notify branch, waiting for review: http://git.collabora.co.uk/?p=user/xclaesse/empathy.git;a=commitdiff;h=7486b731427d233ab222cae1477fa7cb8b8ea241
I rewrote that branch, see cl-notify2 instead.
That branch is now merged. This problem has been fixed in the development version. The fix will be available in the next major software release. Thank you for your bug report.
uhm, is this really fixed? because in empathy 2.24.1 i still don't have the message icon appearing in the contact list. unfortunately i can't reopen this bug... and when i have a conversation window open with multiple tabs and one of them receives a new message, the window icon stays the telepathy icon too, while the message icon would be more useful. or at least an urgency hint...
(In reply to comment #10) > uhm, is this really fixed? because in empathy 2.24.1 i still don't have the > message icon appearing in the contact list. > unfortunately i can't reopen this bug... This part works for me. > and when i have a conversation window open with multiple tabs and one of them > receives a new message, the window icon stays the telepathy icon too, while the > message icon would be more useful. or at least an urgency hint... You should open another bug report with this request;
(In reply to comment #11) > (In reply to comment #10) > > uhm, is this really fixed? because in empathy 2.24.1 i still don't have the > > message icon appearing in the contact list. > > unfortunately i can't reopen this bug... > > This part works for me. ah right. it works, when there is no conversation open already with that contact. i expected the new message icon always to be shown. > > and when i have a conversation window open with multiple tabs and one of them > > receives a new message, the window icon stays the telepathy icon too, while the > > message icon would be more useful. or at least an urgency hint... > > You should open another bug report with this request; > you're right, sorry.