787455 - thunderbird chats don't trigger alerts or sound like mail does

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 742746

(Thunderbird :: Instant Messaging, defect)

Description

[Brad]

Attachment: Where to put the options

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/15.0
Build ID: 20120824154833

Steps to reproduce:

received instant message with Thunderbird in background


Actual results:

Nothing. I didn't notice it.  When I opened Thunderbird again, the Chat tab did have a red (2).


Expected results:

Like in Instantbird and Thunderbird email, there should be an option for when new messages arrive, to:
-Show an alert - Windows popup summary of the message, Growl OSX, etc
-Play a sound

Since it's entirely possible that users would not want either of these for email but would want them for chats, the options should just be duplicated from the Options General tab into the Options Chat tab.

Comment 1

[Florian Quèze [:florian]]

(In reply to Brad from comment #0)

> -Show an alert - Windows popup summary of the message, Growl OSX, etc

This is covered by bug 742746.

> -Play a sound

This is the default behavior since bug 755718 (Thunderbird 15).

Comment 2

[Brad]

Ah, thanks!