"Clear" is present and sensitive when it doesn't do anything (e.g. when there are no pending messages)

[Jeremy Bícha]

indicator-messages 0.4.95-0ubuntu1

1. Log in to a guest session.
2. Open the messaging menu.
3. Set up a Twitter client and receive some tweets.
4. Open the messaging menu.
5. Choose "Clear".
6. Open the messaging menu again.

What happens:
2. "Clear" is present and sensitive.
4. "Clear" is present and sensitive.
6. "Clear" is present and sensitive.

What should happen:
2. "Clear" is not present.
4. "Clear" is present and sensitive.
6. "Clear" is present and insensitive.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MessagingMenu#clear

[Ted Gould (ted)]

On Fri, 2011-09-02 at 10:40 +0000, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> According to the spec, "Clear" should only show in the Messaging Menu if
> there are active messages to be cleared. Currently, the "Clear
> Attention" button always shows.
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MessagingMenu#A.2BIBw-Clear.2BIB0_item

Hmm, that's not how I read the spec. It says:

        The “Clear” item should be sensitive whenever there is at least
        one application with a draw_attention request. Activating the
        item should restore the menu title to the no-new-messages state,
        but should keep any message sources, counts, and times in the
        menu.

Which states to me that it should adjust sensitivity not whether it is
present or not.

  status invalid

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

The two mockups at the top of the wiki page show the initial appearance without the Clear button so. I think that the specification is unclear since the visual mockup doesn't match the text description so I guess we need Design to clarify.

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

Sorry, my mistake, I forgot to specify when the item should be present. It's absent from the first sketch because it should be present only when any applications are set up to use the messaging menu. Specification updated. <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MessagingMenu?action=diff&rev2=79&rev1=78>

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

would that make this bug report invalid?

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

John, please don't reopen a bug report assigned to me without explaining why. Thanks.

[Ted Gould (ted)]

Switching to confirmed, I think that we need to somehow look at how the entires in the menu are handled in these various cases. We can't just clear all of the entries because some of them, for instance, are mailboxes not messages from users. I think that we should just not change the menu items as well, and have clear mean that it's changing the state of the icon on the panel.

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

Ted, why does it matter if some of the items are mailboxes? The messaging menu is specifically about messages that are new, not generally about messages that are unread. Clear means "None of these items are new to me any more". Does that make sense?

[Lars Karlitski (larsu)]

Just tested this in indicator-messages 12.10.2 (which is in quantal): it works fine.

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

Yes, this is fixed with indicator-messages 12.10.4-0ubuntu1 in Ubuntu 12.10.