Indicator applet should notify users when an someone starts a conversation

Bug #638407 reported by bonzi
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Messaging Menu
Triaged
Wishlist
Unassigned
indicator-messages (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Wishlist
Unassigned

Bug Description

Indicator applet is used by several applications like empathy, Google mail notifier applet. Current behavior of the applet is like this (in Maverick)

When someone starts a conversation the mail icon will be green and it will remain like that for long time.

The problem?

1) We have to wait for sometime to see if the green icon is because someone just logged in or if there is a new message.
2) When google mail notifier is installed and if there is unread message (which may not be important) then the icon will remain green and if someone starts a conversation in empathy we are not notified.

bonzi (k-sajith)
description: updated
summary: Indicator applet should notify users when an someone starts a
- conersation
+ conversation
Revision history for this message
Aaron Ahlemeyer (fatespeaks) wrote :
affects: indicator-applet → indicator-messages
Changed in indicator-messages (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
Kalle Valo (kvalo)
Changed in indicator-messages:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
Changed in indicator-messages (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
importance: Low → Wishlist
Revision history for this message
Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen (kamstrup) wrote : Re: [Bug 638407] Re: Indicator applet should notify users when an someone starts a conversation

For the record - we are looking in to how we can make this situation
better in the future - maybe hinting to the user *why* the message
indicator is highlighted. I think there may even be a tracking bug
somewhere for this?

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