Notifications are delayed if contacts send messages too fast

[Juan Montoya]

Binary package hint: empathy

TEST CASE:
1. ask your contact to send you a few messages quickly
2. see each message comes after a visible delay, making the notification stuck.
3. now install empathy from -proposed repository.
4. see all notifications get merged into one.

Original Report:

If your contacts send too many messages to you on empathy, you'll see notifications a lot later than expected.
For example:
mrx: hi
mrx: how are you?
mrx: i got your message
mrx: but hey
mrx: I already sent you that...

The you open the conversation and read the whole message and even respond, you'll still have a notification saying "but hey" even when you read that message long ago.

So, if you open a conversation or focus the conversation window, all enqueued messages should be removed from the queue of notifications, or merged into a single one.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: empathy 2.34.0-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Apr 22 16:59:50 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta i386 (20110330)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=es:en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 LC_MESSAGES=es_ES.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: empathy
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Thank you for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments at: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=648842

[jhfhlkjlj (fdsuufijjejejejej-deactivatedaccount)]

Appears to have been fixed and committed. We'll see the fix on the next stable empathy update (2.34.1)

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

This commit http://git.gnome.org/browse/empathy/commit/?id=7078e93bbcd562175248a8fdf752f2fa92f1171c fixed the issue, I'll work on the SRU asap

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Uploaded to natty-proposed as well, subscribing u-sru.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package empathy - 2.34.0-0ubuntu4

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empathy (2.34.0-0ubuntu4) oneiric; urgency=low

  [ Omer Akram ]
  * debian/patches/70_append_messages_in_notifications.patch:
    - Append new messages in notifications. (LP: #769234)
 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Mon, 30 May 2011 09:41:40 +0200

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Accepted empathy into natty-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Juan Montoya (th3pr0ph3t)]

@Martin Pitt : I tested the way this works on Unity and I'm impressed: It works great! --at least with one contact sending several messages.

However, testing the thing more thoroughly -- and I don't think this will truly be a problem -- I noticed that if two people send one message per second or so the second person's messages are not notified at all.
MSN messenger responds to this with several notifications, one on top of the other.
Empathy 2.34.0 from the -proposed repository seems to handle this quite well.

The fix is good for me and the quick response to this bug was great.

Thanks for fixing it so fast!

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Thanks for testing!

[jhfhlkjlj (fdsuufijjejejejej-deactivatedaccount)]

All seems well to me.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package empathy - 2.34.0-0ubuntu3.1

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empathy (2.34.0-0ubuntu3.1) natty-proposed; urgency=low

  [ Omer Akram ]
  * debian/patches/70_append_messages_in_notifications.patch:
    - Append new messages in notifications. (LP: #769234)
 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Mon, 30 May 2011 09:41:40 +0200