When a chat message arrives, a MAIL icon goes green

[Jon Loldrup]

I received a chat message on Ubuntru 10.04 about 15 minutes ago. I didn't realise though. I just thought that I had received a mail. This had the consequence that I didn't go check it out more or less immediately, as I normally do when someone chat to me. Therefor I lost the chat - the person had already signed off again.

Could the mail icon not be exchanged with a chat icon when its a chat message that comes in?

[Rajat Khanduja (rajatkhanduja13)]

I would like to ask you if there was a notification of the chat (as that happens everytime a chat message is received). The notification uses the NOTIFY-OSD library to show the last received chat message.

In case the notification was absent, I think that's something that should be checked.

Though I do agree that the mail icon shouldn't represent both chat and e-mails.

[Jon Loldrup (loldrup)]

On 11 September 2010 08:34, Rajat Khanduja <email address hidden>wrote:

> I would like to ask you if there was a notification of the chat (as that
> happens everytime a chat message is received). The notification uses the
> NOTIFY-OSD library to show the last received chat message.
>

You mean the half- or non-transparent black/grey box with the text inside
that appears in the upper right corner?
I remember seing such a one at earlier occations (not necessarily on this
installation of Ubuntu), but I don't remember seeing it at that time. Also,
that would clearly have shown me a message had arrived.

[Vish (vish)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 554509 , so it is being marked as such. There is already a discussion going on regarding the improvements to the icon on Bug 554509 , Please look at the bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide.

Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.