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thunderbird launcher icon message notification does not change when messages are read

Bug #872147 reported by Rocko on 2011-10-11

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #856642: launcher icon shows wrong number of new messages. Edit Remove

This bug affects 4 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	thunderbird (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

The number of messages waiting is displayed in the thunderbird icon in my unity launcher, which is great. Normally, as I read the messages, this number decrements and then it disappears once they have all been read.

However, if there are messages waiting when I first launch thunderbird, the number displayed in the icon remains fixed as I read them, until new messages arrive.

Is this perhaps a dbus or unity issue instead? The same thing seems to be true for the number of events awaiting attention in skype - if there are events when I launch it, viewing the events doesn't reset the counter.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: thunderbird 7.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
Uname: Linux 3.1.0-rc9-git-20111010.0937 x86_64
AddonCompatCheckDisabled: False
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24.
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
ArecordDevices:
**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC665 Analog [ALC665 Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
AudioDevicesInUse:
USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/controlC0: sean 2973 F.... pulseaudio
BuildID: 20110929183320
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Card0.Amixer.info:
Card hw:0 'PCH'/'HDA Intel PCH at 0xf1c00000 irq 51'
   Mixer name : 'Intel CougarPoint HDMI'
   Components : 'HDA:10ec0665,1028050e,00100003 HDA:80862805,80860101,00100000'
   Controls : 25
   Simple ctrls : 13
Channel: release
Date: Tue Oct 11 14:52:53 2011
ForcedLayersAccel: False
IfupdownConfig:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110330)
IpRoute:
default via 10.1.1.1 dev wlan0 proto static
10.0.0.0/8 dev wlan0 proto kernel scope link src 10.1.1.8 metric 2
169.254.0.0/16 dev wlan0 scope link metric 1000
Profiles: Profile0 (Default) - LastVersion=7.0.1/20110929183320 (Running)
RunningIncompatibleAddons: False
SourcePackage: thunderbird
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-04 (6 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 07/20/2011
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A06
dmi.board.name: 0NJT03
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A00
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: 0.1
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA06:bd07/20/2011:svnDellInc.:pnDellSystemXPSL502X:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0NJT03:rvrA00:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvr0.1:
dmi.product.name: Dell System XPS L502X
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
no_proxy: localhost,127.0.0.0/8

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Rocko (rockorequin) wrote on 2011-10-11:

AlsaDevices.txt Edit (585 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
AplayDevices.txt Edit (379 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
BootDmesg.txt Edit (66.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Card0.Amixer.values.txt Edit (2.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Card0.Codecs.codec.0.txt Edit (12.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Card0.Codecs.codec.3.txt Edit (2.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
CurrentDmesg.txt Edit (2.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (3.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Extensions.txt Edit (787 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
IpAddr.txt Edit (808 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
IwConfig.txt Edit (561 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Locales.txt Edit (265 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lspci.txt Edit (12.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
PciMultimedia.txt Edit (618 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
PciNetwork.txt Edit (1.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Plugins.txt Edit (954 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Prefs.txt Edit (498 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfo.txt Edit (6.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcEnviron.txt Edit (141 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
PulseSinks.txt Edit (2.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
PulseSources.txt Edit (3.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
RfKill.txt Edit (240 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Themes.txt Edit (143 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
WifiSyslog.txt Edit (134.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2011-11-09:

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in thunderbird (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Natim (site-remy) wrote on 2011-11-09:

The thing is that when using Thunderbird with Gmail on IMAP, a message appear as new in differents folders.

As thunderbird display notification for new messages in all folder, the counter is waiting that we reload each folder before to reload the counter.

This is quite annoying.
It could be quite good to be able to select the folder to follow. For me only the inbox would be good but I can understand that for some people with automatic gmail filters it could be better as now.

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Yanpas (yanpaso) wrote on 2014-05-19:

The bug on bugzilla https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=776218