Disable Empathy's "Contact goes online" and "Contact goes offline" sound notifications by default

[David Siegel]

For users with more than a hundred contacts, Emapthy's "Contact goes online" and "Contact goes offline" will play nearly 4 times every minute, assuming every contact signs on and off once every 12 hours. Inundating the user with intrusive audible notifications that convey very little information is not a sane default.

[Vish (vish)]

Oops , adding the upstream task un-assigned Ken VanDine. [Hence re-assigned ]

[Vish (vish)]

Comments from Upstream :
"The schema defaults both options to "false"; perhaps this is an ubuntu patch?

    <schema>

<key>/schemas/apps/empathy/notifications/notifications_contact_signin</key>

<applyto>/apps/empathy/notifications/notifications_contact_signin</applyto>
      <owner>empathy</owner>
      <type>bool</type>
      <default>false</default>
      <locale name="C">
         <short>Pop up notifications when a contact logs in</short>
         <long>
         Whether to show a popup notification when a contact goes
         online.
         </long>
      </locale>
    </schema>

    <schema>

<key>/schemas/apps/empathy/notifications/notifications_contact_signout</key>

<applyto>/apps/empathy/notifications/notifications_contact_signout</applyto>
      <owner>empathy</owner>
      <type>bool</type>
      <default>false</default>
      <locale name="C">
         <short>Pop up notifications when a contact logs out</short>
         <long>
         Whether to show a popup notification when a contact goes
         offline.
         </long>
      </locale>
    </schema> "

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

It doesn't look like we change any defaults in the Ubuntu packaging, and those schemas above aren't for the sound notifications.

Looking through the upstream schemas, I see these, and they're definately turned on by default:

    <schema>
      <key>/schemas/apps/empathy/sounds/sounds_contact_login</key>
      <applyto>/apps/empathy/sounds/sounds_contact_login</applyto>
      <owner>empathy</owner>
      <type>bool</type>
      <default>true</default>
      <locale name="C">
         <short>Play a sound when a contact logs in</short>
         <long>
         Whether to play a sound to notify of contacts logging into the
         network.
         </long>
      </locale>
    </schema>

    <schema>
      <key>/schemas/apps/empathy/sounds/sounds_contact_logout</key>
      <applyto>/apps/empathy/sounds/sounds_contact_logout</applyto>
      <owner>empathy</owner>
      <type>bool</type>
      <default>true</default>
      <locale name="C">
         <short>Play a sound when a contact logs out</short>
         <long>
         Whether to play a sound to notify of contacts logging out of the
         network.
         </long>
      </locale>
    </schema>

[Vish (vish)]

This has been fixed upstream.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package empathy - 2.29.91-1ubuntu1

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empathy (2.29.91-1ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low

  * Merge from debian experimental
    - Disable Empathy's "Contact goes online" and "Contact goes offline"
      sound notifications by default (LP: #516804)
  * debian/patches/20_libindicate.patch
    - updated patch for 2.29.91
  * debian/patches/99_autoconf.patch
    - regenerated
  * -debian/source/format -debian/patches/series
    - Our patches aren't using quilt
 -- Ken VanDine <email address hidden> Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:15:15 -0500

[Ricardo Jorge Borges Guimarães (rjbgbo)]

I mute the contacts in empathy
after installing the program shutter - screenshot tools
I noticed that the empathy stopped sending sound of contacts when logarem
also been tested by the terminal, and have not had a response