empathy does not update notify-osd notifications

[Alex Launi]

Binary package hint: empathy

On new messages empathy queues a new notification, rather than updating the existing notification. This results in notifications being shown often a few seconds after a message has been received and read.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

this issue was fixed previously seems to be back again since I am able to reproduce this too

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

the other bugs was bug 666288

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

I have commented on the upstream bug if they say I will open a new bug there.

[jhfhlkjlj (fdsuufijjejejejej-deactivatedaccount)]

To clarify, this bug only affects empathy. I have no issue with Pidgin.

[jhfhlkjlj (fdsuufijjejejejej-deactivatedaccount)]

Omer, I don't think bug 666288 is the same issue. I think Alex (and if I'm right, my) issue is with that the merging of notifications is broken: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NotifyOSD#Overflow%20of%20long%20messages

Instead of the previous behavior the bubbles all queue up in succession; so if you have someone IM you six times you'll have six queued bubbles.

Did you file a report or shall I? If you did, please link it here

[jhfhlkjlj (fdsuufijjejejejej-deactivatedaccount)]

Since support for notify-osd is not in the job description of the empathy devs should we even be reporting to them in the first place? Is the specific problem that is preventing the behavior because of a fault with the notify-osd integration or the gnome notification system altogether? It would be helpful to pinpoint where the fault lies before clotting up their bugzilla.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

seems similar to http://git.gnome.org/browse/empathy/commit/?h=gnome-2-34&id=554ea28a6a158f3dee384c485f84184cf606d61c and bug #769234

[jhfhlkjlj (fdsuufijjejejejej-deactivatedaccount)]

That seems to be the bug. I'm going to go ahead and mark this one as dupe even though it's older. Other one is more detailed and has the gnome bug number.