Queued Pidgin notifications keep showing even after conversation has gained focus

[Fernando Miguel]

Binary package hint: pidgin

pidgin libnotify does it smart thing by not sending messages to bubble when the IM tab has focus.
but if you leave/hide it, the newer messages will go to notify-osd... thats fine and wanted.

but if you change to the IM tab, and read it all, the messages on the queue are still being shown until the queue is cleared.
libnotify should revoke those messages, once the tab gains focus.

$ apt-cache policy pidgin
pidgin:
  Installed: 1:2.5.5-1ubuntu3
  Candidate: 1:2.5.5-1ubuntu3
  Version table:
 *** 1:2.5.5-1ubuntu3 0
        500 ftp://darkstar.ist.utl.pt jaunty/main Packages
        500 ftp://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

$ apt-cache policy libnotify1
libnotify1:
  Installed: 0.4.5-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.4.5-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.4.5-0ubuntu1 0
        500 ftp://darkstar.ist.utl.pt jaunty/main Packages
        500 ftp://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

$ apt-cache policy notify-osd
notify-osd:
  Installed: 0.9.6-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 0.9.6-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 0.9.6-0ubuntu2 0
        500 ftp://darkstar.ist.utl.pt jaunty/main Packages
        500 ftp://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: pidgin 1:2.5.5-1ubuntu3
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SourcePackage: pidgin
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic x86_64

[Ted Gould (ted)]

I think that this is low priority because in most cases this doesn't cause serious issues, but it should be fixed.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package pidgin-libnotify - 0.14-1ubuntu8

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pidgin-libnotify (0.14-1ubuntu8) jaunty; urgency=low

  * /debian/patches/indicate.patch:
    * Putting the notifications for a particular conversation
      into a list and closing the entire list when the
      conversation is focused to clear out possible queued
      notifications (LP: #351670)
    * Making it so that indicators and notifications from chats
      also wait from indicating for notifing when the account
      has just connected.
    * Do not make headers have protected ampersands and other HTML-isms
      in the strings. Patch by Cody Russell. (LP: #356147)
    * Use the libindicate interests interface to determine when there
      is someone looking at pidgin with the ability to control visibility
      of the application. Control it if so. (LP: #353112)
    * Change it so that the buddy information is stored in the callback
      instead of user data. Merging in show_button.patch.
  * /debian/control: libindicate 0.1.5
  * /debian/patches/show_button.patch: Moved into indicate.patch

 -- Ted Gould <email address hidden> Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:23:33 -0500