pidgin no longer flashes/notifies on taskbar upon receipt of message

[xtknight]

Start pidgin, have somebody message you while your IM window is minimized. The taskbar button should flash to notify you, but it doesn't. Regression from Gutsy.

[xtknight (xt-knight)]

I guess it's because the Message Notification plugin isn't enabled by default. But I believe that it should be, as it was in Gutsy.

[Dean Moreton (dean-moreton)]

Just to chime in, I find this an annoying regression also.

I noticed using Pidgin in Hardy that I wasn't getting any notifications of new message alerts in my bottom panel and was in fact being quite the snob without realizing it.

I've found I need to go into plugins and enable the message notification plugin to get this behaviour back. The behaviour, to clarify, is to have the window for my chat blink when it gets a new message if its not the active window/minimised. I know I had to configure this manually back in the day with older releases and GAIM but I'm sure this was enabled by default in Gutsy at least.

It's a bit odd having a chat client that doesn't let you know you have a new message by default. Granted I think the systray icon blinks but that's doesn't always catch your eye immediately.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

does anybody still get the issue?

[xtknight (xt-knight)]

As for Karmic:

Message Notification still isn't enabled by default.

I think at one point it used libnotify (I saw the messages in the top right of the screen) but I think the window flashing hint should still exist.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for the report, it has been some time without any response or feedback in this bug report and we are wondering if this is still an issue for you with the latest release of Ubuntu the Natty Narwhal, May you please test with that version and comment back if you're still having or not the issue? Please have a look at http://www.ubuntu.com/download to know how to install that version.Thanks in advance.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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