Gets indicator attention for joining people

Bug #434726 reported by Martin Pitt
22
This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Ayatana Ubuntu
Fix Released
Medium
Ted Gould
empathy (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Ken VanDine
Karmic
Fix Released
Low
Ken VanDine

Bug Description

Binary package hint: empathy

Since the most recent empathy indicator patch, I now get a green dot on the indicator applet not only when someone sent me a message, but also if someone joins/leaves.

This is usually not important to me, unless I'm actually watching out for someone (but then a notification would be better).

Either way, even if people do want to get notified about joining people, you can't tell that apart from getting a new message (which is usually much more urgent).

Can we please disable the "green dot" for people who just turn up? Or make the "new messages" state much more alerting? Right now, this tiny green dot is way too easy to miss. I really liked the blinking icon from empathy, which was much more eye-catching.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: 526c13623eeda7bcc3936c7be57b2d29
CheckboxSystem: c8e8edcc4d15e0d55af04774be77e330
Date: Tue Sep 22 17:59:57 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: empathy 2.28.0-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-10.32lp429241apw2-generic
SourcePackage: empathy
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-10-generic x86_64

Revision history for this message
Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :
Changed in empathy (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Ken VanDine (ken-vandine)
Changed in empathy (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Low
David Barth (dbarth)
Changed in ayatana-ubuntu:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Medium
assignee: nobody → Ted Gould (ted)
milestone: none → ubuntu-9.10
Revision history for this message
Ernst (ernst-blaauw) wrote :

I think this bug receives a higher attention rate than low; Now, I'm disturbed a lot because the indicator-applet shows green mark. Most of the time, this is only a contact who signed in. However, as the indicator-applet shows a green mark, I'm missing the conversations and new e-mail messages.

Revision history for this message
Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl) wrote : Re: [Bug 434726] Re: Gets indicator attention for joining people

Yes, the design intent is that:

 - presence notifications should NOT create the green mark
 - entries in the messaging menu driven by a presence notification
should not show a time, either

See also bug 438237.

Mark

Changed in empathy (Ubuntu Karmic):
status: Confirmed → In Progress
Revision history for this message
Ken VanDine (ken-vandine) wrote :
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package empathy - 2.28.0.1-1ubuntu4

---------------
empathy (2.28.0.1-1ubuntu4) karmic; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/20_libindicate.patch
    - Don't set draw-attention for login events (LP: #434726)
    - Don't display time for login events (LP: #438237)

  [Laurent Bigonville]
  * debian/empathy-doc.install: install missing documentation (LP: #446420)

 -- Ken VanDine <email address hidden> Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:24:12 +0200

Changed in empathy (Ubuntu Karmic):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
Changed in ayatana-ubuntu:
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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