GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 361761
Missed Calls not represented in Tray Icon (KDE)
Last modified: 2020-06-06 16:35:57 UTC
A missed call is not displayed in any way, if only the system tray icon is shown. I'm using KDE 3.5.5 on SuSE 10.1. Ekiga is version 2.0.3. Additionally, the missed call is displayed in the Ekiga main window status bar, but as soon as I click on it, it's gone ("Missed Calls: 0")! I would strongly expect to see WHICH call I missed (i.e. open the call history/missed calls tab and set focus on oldest missed call). Maybe already seen calls should be grey to distinguish "new" missed calls from older missed calls. But I'm not 100% confident about that. Other information:
*** Bug 407203 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This bug is a duplicate of https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=575675
Sorry about the above comment because I linked to an Empathy bug. I copy my suggestion here: Currently this is a *major* problem with Ekiga and has always been. The tiny notification text in the status bar is unnoticable. I'm tired of not being able to see who called me in the past. I don't wanna hunt for the little message, but want some explicit visual notification telling me about the missed calls. The implementation that I suggest is incredibly simple: * Blink the tray icon after a missed call as long as Ekiga gets focus. * Change to the Call history tab. The above is a minimal, but extremely useful solution that could be implemented in a matter of hours (at most). Further thoughts: * After the above functionality is ready it'd nice to show exclamation icons next to the missed calls under the Call history tab. These icons should change back to the gray right arrow icon as soon as they get focus. This way all the missed calls could be instantly recognizable by the user.
I fully agree with you. What we lack is "manpower". Do you have the ability to help on that one? If not I'll put it on my huge todo list.
Yes, I have the ability to help you. I've developed GTK+ applications in C, Python and Mono before. Currently I'm pretty busy but I wanna do this soon because it irritates the hell out of me. I'll contact you on this page in the near future when I'll have some time.
That's an excellent news. Recent "missed" calls could be displayed with a bold font in the call history tab.
Good idea! Using bold font is probably a better visualization than my suggestion.
It's the way it works for unread e-mails, so I think users would easily understand what it means.
Yes, I like the analogy. Perfectly intuitive.
Ekiga is not under active development anymore: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/Infrastructure/-/issues/273 Ekiga saw its last release 7 years ago. The last code commits were 4 years ago. Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping to reflect reality. Please feel free to reopen this ticket (and transfer the project to GNOME Gitlab, as GNOME Bugzilla is deprecated) if anyone takes the responsibility for active Ekiga development again in the future.