Messaging menu does not change icon when a new message appears

[Omer Akram]

I just pulled indicator-messages from trunk (bzr360) and installed it on the phone and rebooted. Now when a new message appears, I get the OSD notification and when I open the messaging menu there is indeed a pending sms there but The color of the messaging menu did not change. See the attached screenshot.

[Lars Karlitski (larsu)]

This is really a bug in telephony-service, which didn't call messaging_menu_message_set_draws_attention(). We probably didn't notice this bug before because chewie-client turned the messaging menu icon blue by itself.

However, I'm attaching a fix for libmessaging-menu anyway: "draws-attention" should really default to TRUE. The phone app doesn't need any updates.

[PS Jenkins bot (ps-jenkins)]

Fix committed into lp:indicator-messages at revision 372, scheduled for release in indicator-messages, milestone 13.10.0

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package indicator-messages - 13.10.1+13.10.20130830.2-0ubuntu1

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indicator-messages (13.10.1+13.10.20130830.2-0ubuntu1) saucy; urgency=low

  [ Lars Uebernickel ]
  * libmessaging-menu: default MessagingMenuMessage::draws-attention to
    TRUE In most cases, apps will want to draw the user's attention when
    they add a message to the menu. (LP: #1215644)

  [ Ubuntu daily release ]
  * Automatic snapshot from revision 372
 -- Ubuntu daily release <email address hidden> Fri, 30 Aug 2013 10:07:39 +0000

[Lars Karlitski (larsu)]

Note: the right icon probably still doesn't show up on the phone until lp:~nick-dedekind/unity8/unitymenumodel.messages lands. indicator-messages uses a new way of serializing GIcons that the current unity8 doesn't understand.

[Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand)]

This bug says it the issue is fixed in 13.10.1+13.10.20130830.2-0ubuntu1, but I have 13.10.1+13.10.20130903-0ubuntu1 installed and it is not fixed. There is a comment about unity8 needing to also be fixed. Adding unity8 task.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Nick Dedekind (nick-dedekind)]

unity8 fix has been released, but I think there's still an issue in indicator-messages.

[Bill Filler (bfiller)]

This is still an issue with image 89
unity8: 7.82+13.10.20131007-0ubuntu1
indicator-messages: 13.10.1+13.10.20131004-0ubuntu1

To reproduce:
- send text message to the phone
- the message indicator does not turn blue, yet the message is there

[Nick Dedekind (nick-dedekind)]

I looked into this a bit last week.

There seems to be a bug somewhere between the indicator clearing/adding a message and the registered application (eg. message app) telling us that it wants to draw attention (blue icon).
I've told larsu about it.

[Lars Karlitski (larsu)]

Fixed in r391, but it didn't land yet.

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~indicator-applet-developers/indicator-messages/trunk.13.10/revision/391

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

It works on Utopic #87, closing.