Comment 3 for bug 345494

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Ted Gould (ted) wrote : Re: [Bug 345494] Re: Should not notify me about buddies signing in/out by default

On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 13:49 +0000, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
> I agree with Jeffrey that these would be more useful if they were
> actionable. That was designed (last-n users should show up in the
> messaging indicator, so you can see "joe signed in" and then immediately
> open up a conversation.

There is a pidgin-libnotify debdiff on another bug that will send them.
And then there's a indicator-messages debdiff (yet to go up) that'll
receive them.

> For me, the notifications are nonetheless useful, except when I sign on
> and see a stream of "sign ons" which are really Pidgin figuring out that
> *I'm* signed on. We need to fix that.

The attached debdiff changes the sounds in Pidgin to match the the
pidgin-libnotify to extend the timeout for those to be 15 seconds after
the protocol connects. This seems to significantly reduce the number of
false logins for me.