Click on blinking tray icon should raise the conversation in cuestion

[andreskru]

When I receive a new message, the tray icon start to blink.
It is posible that when I click in such icon raise the conversation in cuestion?

Can be?

Thanks.

[hs99]

When I receive a new message, the tray icon start to blink.
It is posible that when I click in such icon raise the conversation in cuestion?

Can be?

Thanks.

I don't know, because what if there is more than one conversation windows with new messages... 

[cando]

we can open the conversation with the last message...mmm..i don't know..

[andreskru]

we can open the conversation with the last message...mmm..i don't know..

I like it... and maybe put a number somewhere to indicate the amount of unreaded messages...

[cando]

Yes, I think it is possible....there is someone willing to do that??Now I have some exams but i'll give a look asap...

[fabioamd87]

a little off topic, but what about a letter that blink on a fix status?

someting like this:

[cando]

i think it's very nice .....but we must add this gif for every state(online, away,etc)...but it's not a big deal...

[andreskru]

a little off topic, but what about a letter that blink on a fix status?

someting like this:

mmm... we already have al blinking icon... but the yours its better to me, i like it (maybe it's a little less visible),
what about a number indicating the number of unreaded messages between the blinks or something?

[fabioamd87]

i think it's very nice .....but we must add this gif for every state(online, away,etc)...but it's not a big deal...

i don't know if is possible, but you can just overlap the blinking letter on the status icon...

[arielj]

a little off topic, but what about a letter that blink on a fix status?

someting like this:

Like Cando said, we would need to add even more icons to all the default themes for all the statuses, it's not that easy, also, I don't know if we can modify every theme, some of them have licenses (that I never read ).

a little off topic, but what about a letter that blink on a fix status?

someting like this:

mmm... we already have al blinking icon... but the yours its better to me, i like it (maybe it's a little less visible),
what about a number indicating the number of unreaded messages between the blinks or something?

Mmmm, I think that's even harder. We use gtk.StatusIcon to show the tray icon, and it only support images to be desplayed. We would need "something" that edits the icons in the correct way to put a number in there.

Also, the blinking is handled by gtk, not emesene, we shouldn't modify it's behavior (and I guess it would break on windows, since status icon on windows has some bugs )


About the click to rise windows with unread messages, we already use right and left click, it can use the middle click for that if someone develop this.

[fabioamd87]

when there is a message, the right click can change behaviour?

whet about my last suggest?

[cando]

when there is a message, the right click can change behaviour?

yes..i'm trying to do this...the problem is that i'm using the conversation manager to open conversations but i need the mail of the user who sent me the last message...looking quickly around the code i've not found a way of get this mail...arielj??can you help me?

[arielj]

Maybe you can connect to the "message-received" signal from self.controller.msn and save the latest mail (it's a parameter in the callback).

Then you can check if the tray is blinking, open his conversation window.

Hope it helps.

[cando]

i've already done your second advice and i've thought already to your first one but i think it's a bit "expensive"...every time i receive a message i have to save the mail of the user??....mmm...it's exspensive or it's not so a big problem?

[arielj]

I don't think it's expensive. On memory it's only one variable, and processing it's low too... if you receive THAT many new messages it will be expensive in other areas like the conversation windows, memory usage, loggers, plugins, etc... for the tray icon it will be just an assignation on memory really tiny compared to those other operations.

Don't worry about that, it's not really a problem.