[Gaim-devel] question on notifications and possible bug

[Eric S. J. <es...@ha...>]

I've noticed in the last couple versions (.73-.74) of gaim/w32 that the
visual notifications of messages aren't happening or at least I'm not
noticing them even when I'm looking for them.  I don't use sound based
notifications because they are too disruptive to my focus and those
around me.  I can't use pop-window-to-top on new IM because I'm somewhat
disabled and use speech recognition.  It really sucks to have focused
ripped away from your application that you're dictating into and have
the text sent out over IM to ghod knows who.  It's even worse if the
text has recognition errors that totally change the meaning... ;-)

what I want is a fairly high contrast flash on the taskbar that lasts
for a configurable number of seconds and then leaves the icon in a
"message waiting" state but no longer flashes.  It might be nice to also
have the systray icon also change state if a message is waiting because
my taskbar frequently gets rather crowded with 20 plus application
windows.  My memory says that's what had been there back around .70ish
so it's entirely possible that I am being a clueless twit and missing
some configuration field.

Overall though, I am rather impressed.  It's a nice IM app and it's
clear you have put decent chunk of energy into making it work well.  I
have not had much luck with IRC but then again I haven't put much energy
into figuring out how to make things work there.

---eric