> It's a reasonable idea. Are you envisaging: > > - a menu entry, perhaps at the very bottom of the menu, which says > something like "Clear these message highlights" > - that might be shown only when there are highlighted messages > - clicking it removes those messages from the menu and resets the > indicator to "normal" state
Exactly. > The implementation might be tricky, because I think we generally rely on > apps existing ability to track "unread" messages. We would now be asking > them to track "unread messages that have appeared since the highlights > were cleared" separately from "unread messages which were cleared". So, > a new capability in every compliant app. Is it really that complicated? I thought the current implementation is something in the lines of: 1) app receives message -> adds indicator 2a) indicator is clicked -> removes indicator, opens message 2b) message opened via other means -> removes indicator So it would be just a matter of making (2b) into a no-op if the indicator was previous removed by the clear button. This is probably *already* implemented, as nothing (supposedly) crashes if I receive a message, kill the messaging menu and open the message: the implementation is already robust to the expected indicator not being there anymore. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
