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Bug 602966 - Application is too shy - events are hard to see, there are no pop-ups, I'm missing the new messages!
Application is too shy - events are hard to see, there are no pop-ups, I'm mi...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 585914
Product: empathy
Classification: Core
Component: General
2.28.x
Other Linux
: Normal blocker
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Assigned To: empathy-maint
empathy-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-11-25 18:26 UTC by Florin Andrei
Modified: 2009-11-27 19:05 UTC
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Description Florin Andrei 2009-11-25 18:26:46 UTC
This is the software equivalent of a socially disabled person. When I receive a new IM, there's almost no visible clue as to what just happened. No pop-ups, no message window opening automatically. Or, if something does open, it's minimized. The messages hide themselves pretty well, thereby managing to go unnoticed until it's too late.

MAKE THE APPLICATION LOUDER!

 _      ___   _   _  ____   _____  ____   _  _  _ 
| |    / _ \ | | | ||  _ \ | ____||  _ \ | || || |
| |   | | | || | | || | | ||  _|  | |_) || || || |
| |___| |_| || |_| || |_| || |___ |  _ < |_||_||_|
|_____|\___/  \___/ |____/ |_____||_| \_\(_)(_)(_)


What's the purpose of a messaging application that makes it hard to notice you actually have a message?

You need to rethink your user interface from ground up. Until you do so and implement the changes, I'm switching back to Pidgin.
Comment 1 Gustavo Noronha (kov) 2009-11-25 18:36:37 UTC
I think you may want to try Kopete.
Comment 2 Frederic Peters 2009-11-25 19:51:42 UTC
Thanks Florin for your comment, there is already a request to make new messages more noticeable, in bug 585914.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 585914 ***
Comment 3 robert 2009-11-27 19:05:03 UTC
Just a quick query to the user, have you disabled the Notification Area in GNOME, or are you running Ubuntu and have disabled the Indicator Applet? There is by default a notification pop-up for every new chat, and messages in existing chats should make the window blink in your window manager.