[Telepathy] Lost Empathy notifications on Gnome 3.4

[Pedro Francisco]

On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Nicolas Dufresne
<nicolas.dufresne at collabora.co.uk> wrote:
> Le vendredi 09 novembre 2012 à 10:49 +0000, Pedro Francisco a écrit :
>> So to recap, on Gnome 3.4 I'm losing unread messages (as an icon on
>> 'systray') everytime there is a disconnect.
>>
>> This has been happening frequently so here are the steps to reproduce:
>> * connect using gabble (I'm using Facebook (g-o-a) & Live (g-o-a) but
>> should be irrelevant)
>> * receive messages and don't read them
>> * sudo wpa_cli terminate
>> * check that no unread messages are on 'systray'
>
> This is a known issue. Currently your messages are not lost, they are
> stored in the logs, but there is no way for the UI to figure-out what
> has been read or not from the logger API. Suggested design for solving
> this is welcome, please file a bug if none exist, and comment there.
> Some people have thought of using the logs just like a mailbox in order
> to solve this issue, other would have preferred a per-connection
> solution as some protocol may let you get back those messages from
> server in later connections (Skype as an example).

I currently run manually a script which does:
$ find ~/logs/empathyLogs -type f -mtime -0,4 -print0 |xargs -0 tail -n 3
everytime there is a wireless disconnect or I suspend my computer
without remembering to check if I have unread messages first.

This is not user-friendly.

Currently on Fedora 19 (gnome-shell 3.8).
(related bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56951 --
Empathy unread notifications are lost on disconnect )

--
Pedro