** Also affects: pidgin-libnotify (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: pidgin-libnotify (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => High
** Changed in: pidgin-libnotify (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
** Changed in: pidgin-libnotify (Ubuntu)
Assignee: (unassigned) => dx team (dxteam)
** Changed in: pidgin-libnotify (Ubuntu)
Assignee: dx team (dxteam) => (unassigned)
** Summary changed:
- chanserv / nickserv / server notifications not relevant
+ IM clients should blacklist system nicks like chanserv / nickserv / server
for notifications and messaging menu
** Description changed:
- Right, the indicator applet is a great idea and it works quite well but there
is one huge problem I have come accross usability wise. When you have pidgin
running as your google talk, msn and irc frontend you will most likely come
accross this.
- It reports server reconnects and nickerv messages to you in the indicator
applet. Bad idea, why is it bad.... Because reconnecting to a server, or
getting a message from a bot is not what people like to be notified about 100
billion times a day.
- I have found myself ignoring the applet because its nearly constantly in a
new message state because of this flood of useless information and most of the
time I find myself clicking on it to see a friend from msn or google talk sent
me a message 4 hours ago.
- Upon reading the message I feel quite bad because I get messages like are you
ever online for real after they get frustrated with sending me messages with no
response.
- So please get indicator applet to ignore the flood of useless information so
I wont be ass inclined to ignore it anymore.
+ The IM notifications and messaging menu would be improved by
+ blacklisting system messages, for example from chanserv and nickserv.
+
+ Large numbers of notifications and messaging menu entries which do not
+ correspond to real, high-value communications undermine the usefulness
+ and excitement of notifications/messaging menu in general. So we want to
+ eliminate noise from that channel.
+
+ The blacklist is an advanced feature so does not need to have user-
+ visible preferences, at least in the first iteration. It would be
+ acceptable for there to be a configuration file or gconf setting which
+ lists the nick's which are blacklisted, so expert users could change the
+ list.
+
+ This bug should be targeted to 9.10 for Pidgin, and any other IM clients
+ for which we aim to deliver notifications and messaging menu integration
+ in 9.10.
** Tags added: canonical-indicators dxteam notifications
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IM clients should blacklist system nicks like chanserv / nickserv / server for
notifications and messaging menu
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/362660
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Status in Indicator Applet: Confirmed
Status in “indicator-applet” source package in Ubuntu: Triaged
Status in “pidgin-libnotify” source package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
Bug description:
The IM notifications and messaging menu would be improved by blacklisting
system messages, for example from chanserv and nickserv.
Large numbers of notifications and messaging menu entries which do not
correspond to real, high-value communications undermine the usefulness and
excitement of notifications/messaging menu in general. So we want to eliminate
noise from that channel.
The blacklist is an advanced feature so does not need to have user-visible
preferences, at least in the first iteration. It would be acceptable for there
to be a configuration file or gconf setting which lists the nick's which are
blacklisted, so expert users could change the list.
This bug should be targeted to 9.10 for Pidgin, and any other IM clients for
which we aim to deliver notifications and messaging menu integration in 9.10.
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