Shades envelope in top bar thingy as blue when reddit is open, rather than when reddit has new messages

[Avi Greenbury]

While I have no unread Reddit messages and Reddit open in a tab in a browser, the envelope in the indicator bar is shaded blue, as if to suggest unread messages. If I click on it I have a new line in the 'Reddit' bit of the menu, which says 'Messages: 0'. If I click on that, it switches to the tab containing Reddit and colours the envelope grey again.

In traditional step-by-step form, what happens is:

0) Install unity-webapps-reddit
1) Open up reddit in Firefox
2) Observe envelope in indicator bar turn blue
3) Click on envelope in indicator bar
4) Choose either 'reddit' or 'messages: 0m' from the dropdown
5) Se no new messages in reddit
6) See envelope in indicator bar turn grey again

What I'd expect:
0) Install unity-webapps-reddit
1) Open up reddit in Firefox
2) See envelope in indicator bar turn blue only if there are some new messages, stay gray if there aren't.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: unity-webapps-reddit 2.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-16.25-generic 3.5.4
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-16-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.5.3-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Oct 1 23:21:17 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha amd64 (20120910)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity-webapps-reddit
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Raoul Verveer (lazy-r)]

This also affects me with 13.04
Apparently the unread status is initiated on every pageload on reddit.com
I don't know if it matters, but I'm using Firefox. I haven't tested this with Chrome/Chromium.

[Stephen Kraemer (straemer)]

Ya, I wrote a patch for this a while ago that fixes half the problem (it doesn't seem particularly easy to fix it entirely, see #1061307) I'll check in IRC to see if this can get merged in.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package unity-webapps-reddit - 2.4.16daily13.06.15-0ubuntu1

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unity-webapps-reddit (2.4.16daily13.06.15-0ubuntu1) saucy; urgency=low

  [ Víctor R. Ruiz ]
  * Fix 'const' error (style_checker).

  [ Robert Bruce Park ]
  * Don't highlight messaging menu when reddit doesn't have messages
    (thanks to straemer). (LP: #1059882)

  [ Ubuntu daily release ]
  * Automatic snapshot from revision 39
 -- Ubuntu daily release <email address hidden> Sat, 15 Jun 2013 05:02:38 +0000

[Matthew Bradley (matthewbradley)]

Roughly when will this hit the main repos?

[Stephen Kraemer (straemer)]

This patch is committed in Saucy. I think I asked to get it backported into current releases, but I don't think I got a response on that... In any case, if you're desperate to get this patch, I think you can manually get it from here: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/saucy/+package/unity-webapps-reddit