Add audio/visual notifications

[fuzzynoise]

Binary package hint: empathy

a wish:
empathy (as in version 2.24.1, on intrepid ibex) lacks audio and visual notifications for events such as a contact signing in, sending a message etc, a very useful feature found in many other clients

[Guillaume Desmottes (cassidy)]

Let's focus on one issue at a time: audio notification.

There is an upstream bug open about this: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=528929

Feel free to open bugs for each kind of visual notification you think is missing.

[Id2ndR (id2ndr)]

Fixed in jaunty for audio notifications (you can modify options in the preference window).
About visual notification, we might open an other bug.

[Id2ndR (id2ndr)]

I can't hear any sound whereas the option is check or not. Other may confirm ?

[vikhyath (vikhyath-gmail)]

Same here I cant hear any sound whether the option is checked or not. I am using Jaunty currently, did not have sound in Intrepid either.

[Id2ndR (id2ndr)]

Only one part of the trouble is fixed in Jaunty. The other part may be easily fixed : this should be link to the Ubuntu sound theme that may not contain sounds for IM events.

[hanzomon4 (hanzomon4)]

Um... I don't get any notifications from empathy in Jaunty. The options are checked so is this fix not released?

[jhfhlkjlj (fdsuufijjejejejej-deactivatedaccount)]

I also am not getting notifications. I'm using the up-to-date PPA.

[xavier (s.xavier)]

I can confirm that the sound events arn't working for me on 9.04 with empathy 2.27.3.

[Jonathan Rogers (jonner)]

The sound part of this is addressed in Bug #400485

[jhfhlkjlj (fdsuufijjejejejej-deactivatedaccount)]

This should not be a wishlist item. The visual notifications are implemented, and the audio notifications are implemented in the program as well. as Jonathan Rogers shows, the problem lies within the gnome-desktop itself, lacking the necessary audio files. The whole sound theme idea is completely broken, honestly. I manually do everything I need to. I have chmod-ed my /usr/share/sounds directory for easy access to put sounds in there because the theming does not work.

[mercutio22 (macabro22)]

No sound and text notification upon new received messages in karmic beta!

[hernad-b-out-ba (hernad-b-out-ba)]

I can confirm that empathy sound notification are broken till now.

I have tried with freedesktop theme and copying files to feed necessary names, but in some expected situations I have no sound.

This is theme I use, and files (relevant to empathy chat) I have:

bringout@nbringout-2:/usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo$ ls message*
message-new-email.ogg message-new-instant.ogg message-sent-instant.ogg

My empathy settings:
* Enable sound notifications - on
* Disable sound notifications when I am away or busy - off
* All events later - on

When I type message I have sound.

But when I receive sometimes yes, sometimes not ?!

When I get sound, I receive also visual "cloud" notification in the upper right corner ...

I ti really messed up :(

[hernad-b-out-ba (hernad-b-out-ba)]

I ti really ... => It is really ...

[hernad-b-out-ba (hernad-b-out-ba)]

Some more informations:

Receiving IM message:
* Regular chat sound/visual notification works when I my chat window is *not* in focus
* No sound notification when my chat window is open.
* It doesn't work never when I receive message from jabber chat room

I get sound in pidgin in every of these situations.