pidgin doesn't notify at start of conversation (libnotify)

Additionally, the libnotify plugin doesn't appear to work at all for IRC chat windows.

Hello,

I would like to get a fix for this as a Jaunty SRU when the Jaunty updates archive opens after the release. I have built a package of a fix, could the reporters on this bug please confirm whether or not this updated package fixes the issue?

  https://launchpad.net/~ted-gould/+archive/bugfix

Thank you.
Ted

Ted, the above package appears to fix the problem. Thanks!

Accepted pidgin-libnotify into jaunty-proposed; please test and give feedback here. Please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

I have the same problem as the bug report, but the above package doesn't seem to fix it. I've tried uninstalling/reinstalling a few times now with no luck. It still doesn't notify on new conversations, only messages within the conversations.

Same here. I get notifications on new messages, but not new converstations.

Yes. it is not responsive for new conversations with the fix provided.

Hmmm.. I thought it had fixed the problem for me, but checked again after all these comments appeared.

Turns out it *didn't* fix the problem. I must have been mistaken when I thought that it had. Sorry.

the issue seems to be a pidgin-libnotify one

Should be invalid for package pidgin as bug is in pidgin-libnotify

What's the status on this bug? I see that a fix has been committed, but as for right now it's still not working and it's a pretty annoying bug. I can understand that the developers probably have bigger concerns right now, but I'm just wondering.

I removed this from jaunty-proposed. It didn't get any feedback, it is still not fixed in karmic, and is verification-failed.

2009-09-09 09:58:33 INFO Removing candidates:
2009-09-09 09:58:33 INFO pidgin-libnotify 0.14-1ubuntu9 in jaunty
2009-09-09 09:58:33 INFO pidgin-libnotify 0.14-1ubuntu9 in jaunty amd64
2009-09-09 09:58:33 INFO pidgin-libnotify 0.14-1ubuntu9 in jaunty armel
2009-09-09 09:58:33 INFO pidgin-libnotify 0.14-1ubuntu9 in jaunty hppa
2009-09-09 09:58:33 INFO pidgin-libnotify 0.14-1ubuntu9 in jaunty i386
2009-09-09 09:58:33 INFO pidgin-libnotify 0.14-1ubuntu9 in jaunty ia64
2009-09-09 09:58:33 INFO pidgin-libnotify 0.14-1ubuntu9 in jaunty lpia
2009-09-09 09:58:33 INFO pidgin-libnotify 0.14-1ubuntu9 in jaunty powerpc
2009-09-09 09:58:33 INFO pidgin-libnotify 0.14-1ubuntu9 in jaunty sparc
2009-09-09 09:58:33 INFO Removed-by: Martin Pitt
2009-09-09 09:58:33 INFO Comment: unverified/failed SRU
2009-09-09 09:58:33 INFO 9 packages successfully removed.
2009-09-09 09:58:33 INFO Transaction committed.

This is a serious bug. People often send just one message to know if you are there and you won't get the notification.
I Don't understand why it is marked Low Priority and forgotten.

This bug is a duplicate of #363108

This bug was fixed in the package pidgin-libnotify - 0.14-1ubuntu10

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pidgin-libnotify (0.14-1ubuntu10) karmic; urgency=low

  * Adding in blacklist support
  * Trying to fix IRC first messages by using an idle function
    to wait for the conversation to get built.
  * Changing black list to be a plugin preference.
  * Adding checking for the server
  * /debian/patches/indicate.patch:
    * Updating to use the libindicate v2 interface (LP: #424487 and
      LP: #424491)
    * Merging in Ken Vandine's patch to make the Pidgin window always
      rise on click from the indicator applet. (LP: #354026)
    * Starting a blacklist for common IRC server nicks. (LP: #362660)
    * Making it so that no append hint is sent on connection status
      messages. (LP: #361800)
    * Setting the default icon to match the notify-osd specification
      if there is no better icon available. (LP: #356979)
    * Making the login timeout 60 seconds instead of 15 so that the
      indicator applet doesn't flicker.
    * Changing the logic slightly so that if we don't have a GUI window
      then we don't check for focus. We only block notifications/indicators
      we we both have a GUI and have focus. (LP: #351545)
  * Adding debian/patches/indicate-autotools.patch changes to built
    files from above patch.
  * debian/control:
    * Increasing libindicate dependency to 0.2.0
    * Adding a build dependency on libindicate-gtk-dev

 -- Ted Gould <email address hidden> Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:10:37 -0500

Still this bug appears in Raring(13.04) with pidgin ver. 2.10.7 and pidgin-libnotify ver. 0.14-9ubuntu1
This is really annoying, is there any update?

@Jerry, this is hardly the same bug as in 2009. But I confirm it does again appear in 13.4, whereas it worked in 12.10 (after white-listing Pidgin notifications).

And I also confirm that this is really annoying.

I can confirm that it already exists on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) with pidgin version 2.10.3-0ubuntu1.3 and pidgin-libnotify version 0.14-4ubuntu10.

And yes, it is really, really annoying.

This bug still appears in Ubuntu 13.10 64bit with pidgin 2.10.7, and it is _very_ annoying. The first message of a conversation does not show up in libnotify. Since many of my contacts start a conversation with a one-liner, this bug caused me many missed messages.

It did not appear in Ubuntu 13.04, 12.04 or 12.10

Any news?

Still happens for me in 14.10