955304 - not playing incoming message sound when there are more than 2 users in the conversation

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Instantbird Graveyard :: Conversation, defect)

Description

[Instantbot]

*** Original post on bio 1871 by beqa <beqaprogger AT gmail.com> at 2013-02-03 14:43:00 UTC ***

hello devs.

when in the conversation are more than two users incoming message sound doesn't play.
it plays when there are two users.

Comment 1

[Benedikt Pfeifer]

*** Original post on bio 1871 at 2013-02-03 19:43:54 UTC ***

It sounds like you are talking about direct chats (one person with another) and multi-user chats (MUC) like IRC channels or XMPP/Jabber chat rooms.

In MUCs no sound is played when a new message is received as this would get quite noisy in a busy channel or chat room. Of course you'll get a sound in such a room when a message was directed at you (that means when it mentions your nickname).

Comment 2

[Benedikt Pfeifer]

*** Original post on bio 1871 at 2013-02-04 10:00:03 UTC ***

On which protocol (IRC/XMPP/MSN/AIM/..) have you seen this problem?
Are there other details about this situation that you'd like to share to help us understand why it was useful for you to know about every incoming message?

Comment 3

[Instantbot]

*** Original post on bio 1871 by beqa <beqaprogger AT gmail.com> at 2013-02-04 15:05:13 UTC ***

hi.

in irc.

i want to be notified when new incomming message will come.

when i am talking in irc paralelly i am doing other things and my screen-reader doesn't read messages in minimized window.

please add this feature if it is possible

Comment 4

[Benedikt Pfeifer]

Attachment: Extension that plays a sound for new messages in chats.

*** Original post on bio 1871 as attmnt 2222 at 2013-02-06 20:48:00 UTC ***

Here's an extension that plays a sound when a new message in a chat is received.
Outgoing messages, system messages and messages containing the user's nick are excluded from this.

Comment 5

[Instantbot]

*** Original post on bio 1871 by beqa <beqaprogger AT gmail.com> at 2013-02-07 02:09:55 UTC ***

sorry, how to install extensions?

in documentation i read drag/drop file to the list.

i'm not sighted person how i can set file location to install addon?

Comment 6

[Benedikt Pfeifer]

*** Original post on bio 1871 at 2013-02-07 12:19:31 UTC ***

(In reply to comment #5)
> sorry, how to install extensions?
> 
> in documentation i read drag/drop file to the list.
> 
> i'm not sighted person how i can set file location to install addon?

The add-on manager has a menu attached to a toolbar button that contains an option to "Install add-on from file..." that allows you to select a file with a file picker dialog. On screen it's placed left of the search field but I couldn't access it by tabbing through focusable items and neither has it an access key. Maybe this information will help you anyways?

Comment 7

[Benedikt Pfeifer]

*** Original post on bio 1871 at 2013-02-07 12:30:04 UTC ***

You can work around this toolbar button-problem by creating a "userChrome.css" file [1] and enter the following content. This will make the button focusable (in the tab order, it will be before the search field then).

#header-utils-btn {
  -moz-user-focus: normal;
}


[1] http://kb.mozillazine.org/index.php?title=UserChrome.css

Comment 8

[Instantbot]

*** Original post on bio 1871 by beqa <beqaprogger AT gmail.com> at 2013-02-07 16:17:03 UTC ***

hello.

i created userChrome.css in my programfiles folder in instant bird with this code

file [1]

#header-utils-btn {
  -moz-user-focus: normal;
}


[1] http://kb.mozillazine.org/index.php?title=UserChrome.css

it doesn't work.

what i do wrong?

Comment 9

[Benedikt Pfeifer]

*** Original post on bio 1871 at 2013-02-08 07:35:51 UTC ***

It should work if you have followed the instructions given in the link.

Comment 10

[Benedikt Pfeifer]

*** Original post on bio 1871 at 2013-02-28 20:46:49 UTC ***

The add-on can be found here now: https://addons.instantbird.org/en-US/instantbird/addon/341

Comment 11

[Patrick Cloke [:clokep]]

*** Original post on bio 1871 at 2013-03-26 12:38:23 UTC ***

Assuming that this bug is just about the "incoming message sound" not playing in MUCs, I think this is WONTFIX (since Mic's extension should be good enough).  If there's a good reason for including this ability by default (is it an accessibility concern?) we should re-evaluate.

Please reopen this if the description above is not accurate.