Enhance Notification messages (too verbose)

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I report this as a feature request... The actual activity notifications
have a Contact Presence Changes... This is rendundant i think. In my case i
don't like to see when a contact changes to busy or when the contact is
offline... My request is to remove that entry and add the next entries:

Contact is online
Contact is offline
Contact presence changes (when a contact changes for example from connected
to busy)

What the community think?

Cheers! 

Original issue reported on code.google.com by nicolase...@gmail.com on 19 May 2009 at 8:36

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Yeah i was planning on requesting this as well. also, when you sign in you get
notifications for all the connected contacts which is really useless.

Original comment by sebas.sc...@yahoo.com.ar on 19 May 2009 at 9:34

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This is a problem with the msn protocol i think, because this that not happens 
in the
XMPP protocol and the same problem i have in emesene

Original comment by nicolase...@gmail.com on 20 May 2009 at 2:01

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Ah yes, this is definitely messed. I'm not sure since when but it used to be ok.

Its MSN specific, and I will fix it.

Original comment by dra...@gmail.com on 20 May 2009 at 4:50

• Changed state: Started
• Added labels: Component-Gui, Component-Msn, Milestone-0.8, Type-Defect

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Original comment by dra...@gmail.com on 20 May 2009 at 4:56

• Changed title: Enhance Notification messages (too verbose)
• Added labels: Type-Enhancement
• Removed labels: Type-Defect

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We also need to redesign the text of notification. Aside from the fact it's
unreadable with Ubuntu's new notify-osd (thanks Canonical), it's kinda hard to 
read
even with normal notification daemon.

I think the Pidgin way (title is the name of contact, text is just what 
happened) is
way better here.

By the way, the problem with notification flood on startup applies to XMPP as 
well.
In XMPP, there is no way to figure out when it stops. I'm just not showing them 
for a
certain period of time after login. (Not perfect, but works unless you have 
really
slow connection)

Original comment by Zarevucky.Jiri on 20 May 2009 at 5:27

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I like the idea to do the notifications like pidgin... The way like pidgin
concatenate the messages in one bubble is awesome!

Original comment by nicolase...@gmail.com on 20 May 2009 at 10:39

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this is a duplicate of another issue open for improving notification design.

Original comment by dra...@gmail.com on 22 May 2009 at 2:00

• Changed state: Duplicate

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It would really be much easier to track if you used the "merge into" field. Try 
it
next time.

Original comment by Zarevucky.Jiri on 22 May 2009 at 4:43