Karmic: Empathy and Notify-osd don't play if the chat window is open

[Dave Morley]

Binary package hint: empathy

While empathy doesn't have a chat window (in this case salut talking to bonjour on jaunty pidgin) open notify-osd displays everything that is typed on the jaunty computer. However once I open the chat window even if it isn't the selected window all that happens is the button on the bottom task bar flashes orange. Notify-osd is no-longer used.

I'm not sure if this should be fixed in empathy or notify-osd or if there is anything to fix. But it doesn't feel as well integrated as pidgin is at the moment.

Tested using 20090715 ubuntu i386 updated on the 16th

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Jul 16 18:49:25 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: empathy 2.27.3-2ubuntu3
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-3.19-generic
SourcePackage: empathy
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-3-generic i686

[Florian Schweikert (kelvan)]

I deleted the second panel with the taskbar (using gnome-do docky insteed), so I only see a jumping icon if I got a new message. Sometimes chat partner are offended when I don't write back :(

[Brian Curtis (bcurtiswx)]

This is a notify-osd wishlist bug.

[Mirco Müller (macslow)]

That's rather an issue of empathy then notify-osd. notify-osd just takes whatever it gets sent from applications. If an app doesn't send a notification, notify-osd of course doesn't display anything.

[Mirco Müller (macslow)]

That's rather an issue of empathy and not notify-osd.

[Mohamed Amine Ilidrissi (ilidrissi.amine)]

This bug is quite old, and I can't reproduce it on Maverick. Can you test on 10.04 or 10.10? Thanks!

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!