302425 - popup messages in a tray notification

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 622714

(Other Applications :: ChatZilla, enhancement)

Description

[Brett Porter]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

it would be good if the same technique Thunderbird uses when you get new
messages could be used to popup messages received in a channel in the tray area
(and stack them if multiple). This is like how MSN messenger works.

I would use it for all messages from selected channels, but it would good to
make it configurable per channel and be able to configure it for
highlight/private chat, regular chat, or both.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[James Ross]

Using the prefix [RFE] has been depreciated for years.

Comment 2

[Glen Mailer]

In a moderately busy IRC channel, you can get up to 3 messages a second easily.

I presume you only want a notification such as this when the window is not
currently focused and it should only appear for the first message?

I'm not sure how accessible the toaster code from thunderbird/firefox is from a
codebase point of view, but i know our current message notification system
doesnt not make these distinctions about relevance. This would likely need to be
tackled first.

Comment 3

[James Ross]

The toaster is completely usable from JS AFAIK, however, this would have to
depend on bug 252848, so that we can have general - central - controls for all
the various notification methods.

Comment 4

[Brett Porter]

thanks for replying so quickly. responses to comments:

only when not focused: yes, definitely. Sorry I forgot to mention that.

only first message: not really. I had for a little while left chatzilla for
trillian as it has this feature, and what it does is stacks the messages up the
window. Basically I was using it to read messages without constantly swapping
windows. I'm happy to hear alternatives others have used to achieve this.

The reason for being selective about routing was to be able to turn it off for
certain channels that have a lot of messages, but I could live without that for now.

Comment 5

[James Ross]

I don't believe the toaster service is flexible enough for what you want. I'm
not sure it can do more than a line or two of text, and I am pretty sure it wont
stack multiple ones.

Comment 6

[:Gijs (he/him)]

*** Bug 358495 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[David Vo [:auscompgeek]]

Maybe for channel text, only display a toaster popup if the message is important.

Comment 8

[Robert Utasi [:hunboy]]

A working plugin is available at Bug 622714 in the attachment, if someone needs this feature should use the plugin. The plugin got menu options so you can filter what type of messages you want to be popupped :) After 2years of usage the plugin looks stable, has intelligent flood-protector, and works with win, linux, mac as well.

enjoy :)

Comment 9

[Robert Utasi [:hunboy]]

This bug is fixed by the Bug 622714
available in [cz-0.9.91]