Yes, doing it on the pidgin plugin side gives us more than just string filtering as we would actually have access to nicks. Aren't we already using a plugin to do the notifications? The "libnotify-popups" plugin already has a configuration UI (screenshot attached), so why not add a checkbox there "Ignore system messages" or something similar which would not show notifications for those, and check it by default. This way it could be a fairly straightforward Jaunty SRU.
-- IM clients should blacklist system nicks like chanserv / nickserv / server for notifications and messaging menu https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/362660 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Indicator Applet Developers, which is the registrant for Indicator Applet. 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. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dx-team Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dx-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
