Improve Thunderbird notifications for Gnome Shell

[Eugene Romanenko]

As Gnome Shell notification subsystem have more features than notifications in Unity, integration needs to be improved.

Currently, in artful and bionic, Thunderbird notifications have two issues:

1. On lock screen, Thunderbird always show "1 new notification" even multiple mails arrived while screen locked.

2. Thunderbird should withdrawal notifications, if message was viewed and marked as read on another device (for IMAP only).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: thunderbird 1:52.6.0+build1-0ubuntu1
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BuildID: 20180131200234
Channel: Unavailable
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Date: Tue Mar 27 10:55:59 2018
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RfKill:

RunningIncompatibleAddons: True
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SubmittedCrashIDs: bp-63008d16-a2d5-46b1-b9d2-3f3ef0180321
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2017-10-24 (153 days ago)
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[Alex (alexbennett)]

I was able to reproduce both of these bugs on Bionic Daily.

1. I received 2 emails simultaneously but only received one notification on my lock screen. This is expected as Thunderbird only has one notification which states you have 2 emails so the lock screen is right.

2. I read these emails on another device and confirm that although thunderbird marks them correctly as read in the client, the notification remains on the lock screen.

[gf (gf-interlinks-deactivatedaccount)]

Hello Eugene,
Thank you for submitting this bug and reporting a problem with Thunderbird. You made this bug report some time ago and there have been several versions of Ubuntu and Thunderbird since then.

Could you confirm that this is no longer a problem and that we can close the ticket?
If it is still a problem, are you still interested in finding a solution to this bug?
If you are, could you run the following (only once):
apport-collect BUGNUMBER
and upload the updated logs and and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

Thank you again for helping make Ubuntu and Thunderbird better.
G

[Eugene Romanenko (eros2)]

Nothing was changed in Thunderbird notifications since bugreport time.
Still needs improvements.

[gf (gf-interlinks-deactivatedaccount)]

Ok, thanks for the update, Eugene. I will change the status back to "new" and look at next steps.
Take care
:)
G

[gf (gf-interlinks-deactivatedaccount)]

Hi Eugene,
I haven't forgotten you. I will try to replicate this on my own computer so we can get this bug confirmed.
Thanks
G

[Eugene Romanenko (eros2)]

Thank you!

[MF (egalmf)]

I also experience issue 2. (on bionic) of this bug: even though messages are read and correctly marked as read in Thunderbird window, the red notification on Thunderbird dock icon is not updated.

[Eugene Romanenko (eros2)]

MF, this issue about integration with Gnome Shell notification subsystem.

Badge count on dock icon is another (much painful) subject (eg bug #1756837).

[gf (gf-interlinks-deactivatedaccount)]

Thanks for the update, MF. I will mark it as confirmed.
Have a great day.
:)
G

[gf (gf-interlinks-deactivatedaccount)]

Thanks for the update, MF. I will mark it as confirmed.
Have a great day.
:)
G