pidgin-libnotify

pidgin shows lot of notifications on login

Bug #335763 reported by Jairaj
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pidgin-libnotify
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notify-osd (Ubuntu)
Invalid
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Bug Description

When u first open pidgin, a lot of notifications are shown (since all online contacts display a notification).
Instead contact is online notification should be shown only for contacts who become online after the user is logged into Pidgin completely.

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Ted Gould (ted) wrote :

There is already code to do this. We wait for Pidgin to say that the protocol is fully connected. This gets most cases, but Pidgin isn't really good at detecting this.

Changed in pidgin-libnotify:
status: New → Confirmed
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Jairaj (ursjai) wrote :

does that mean that the bug is already corrected? (i was using ubuntu jaunty alfa 5)

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Michaël Vanderheeren (michael-vanderheeren) wrote :

I don't get these notifications on login. Can someone confirm this so this bug can be marked as fixed or not...

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Jairaj (ursjai) wrote :

This problem seems to affect users with slow internet connection only. (its just a guess. can someone please confirm this)

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David Barth (dbarth) wrote :

Not a notify-osd bug

Changed in notify-osd:
status: New → Invalid
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Eitan Isaacson (eeejay) wrote :

This issues seems to be extensively discussed in bug #334809.

Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)
affects: notify-osd → notify-osd (Ubuntu)
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