liferea should show number of new items in unity badge

[Pavol Klačanský]

Now, liferea shows number of unread items, and I cannot get point. Emapthy shows number of new messages, evolution too, but liferea is different and makes badge totally unuseful.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: liferea 1.6.4-1ubuntu7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Jul 2 16:27:19 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=sk_SK:en
 LANG=sk_SK.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: liferea
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Jean-Philippe Orsini (jfi)]

Pavol, I don't understand what you mean by "and I cannot get point.". I guess that you would prefer that the Launcher count is the number of new messages instead of the number of unread messages.

I believe that it is more important to know the number of unread messages than the number of unread messages since the last feed update. At least, that's my very personal need. Anyway, if evolution and empathy display the *new* messages count, it is probably a good argument to be coherent for liferea too.

I am only the person who did this unity patch, not a liferea author or Ubuntu developer. I could easily change the behaviour, it only requires to change feedlist_get_unread_item_count by feedlist_get_new_item_count in src/ui_unity.c (it can also be an option) but I think that we should wait a Ubuntu (Ayatana?) agrees or a large number of people votes for this change. For the moment, AFAIK you are the only who has do such request...

[Pavol Klačanský (pavolzetor-deactivatedaccount)]

okey

I think almost nobody reads all articles, and they don't care about old entries, so that's my point.