[Bug 600353] Re: no notifications shown when using indicator-applet

[Mark Dickinson]

Sure.  To fully understand the problem I'll take you from login to chat.
I've set my bar to not hide itself so I can see exactly what happens.

1.  Login.  Mail icon on indicator-applet is white.

2.  15 seconds or so later, the envelope turns green and I get a
notification bubble from nickserv about my freenode nick being
registered.  Notification fades away and leaves envelope green.  I
ignore this because empathy handles the password registration with
nickserv automatically.

3.  Friend sends IM through jabber (gmail).  Nothing happens.  Icon is
already green from the nickserv exchange.  There's no change in the icon
and no notification.  Nothing.

4.  Just to check,  I click the mail icon and sure enough, I've got two
"chats" in progress, one from nickserv on freenode and another from my
friend.  I select my friend's chat from the menu and can exchange
messages.

5.  With the chat window open but not focused, my friend sends another
message.  I get a notification.

6.  I close the chat window, ending the chat.  My friend sends another
message after I close the window and I get no notification.  I click on
the envelope and there's the chat on the list, 0 minutes old.

7.  I select and close both the jabber chat and the freenode nickserv.
The icon turns white.

8.  Friend sends another message through gmail.  Envelope turns green
and I get a notification.  Friend sends subsequent messages and
notifications work.

9.  Without ending the jabber chat, I enlist a second friend who sends a
message through facebook.  No notification.  But the chat is on the
envelope menu.

10.  I end the jabber chat and have the facebook chat resent, I get a
notification.

So the issue seems to be notifications with more than one unread chat
open at once.  I was assuming that all notifications failed after the
initial one but that's only because I was ignoring the nickserv chat and
leaving it unread.  It seems that any second unread chat doesn't notify.
This exercise helped me clarifiy the issue for myself.  I hope I've
typed it clearly here.

For reference, my notification settings are 'enable bubble
notifications' and 'enable notifications when the chat is not focused'
and 'show incoming messages in the menu'

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no notifications shown when using indicator-applet
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/600353
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