Bug 328988

Summary:	[feature] Mark gtalk conversation as read when reading from telepathy chat window
Product:	[Unmaintained] telepathy	Reporter:	Franco Pellegrini <frapell>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Telepathy Bugs <kde-telepathy-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	mklapetek
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	0.6.3
Target Milestone:	Future
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Franco Pellegrini 2013-12-19 01:47:45 UTC

This is the situation: I have my browser open in my Gmail inbox, and my android phone (in sync with my gmail account).
When I get a chat from any contact, I get a notification both in my phone and at the browser. If I open the chat in my phone, then the conversation at the browser, gets marked as read, and viceversa. Furthermore, if I'm chatting with the phone, the conversation doesn't even appear at the browser.

Using Telepathy with gtalk is kind of annoying in this sense. I chat with people with it, but I constantly need to either manually remove the chat notifications from my phone, or go to the browser tab and click the conversations to mark them as read.

Is there any way for telepathy to mimic what Google does, marking the conversation as read on the other devices, when it has already been read in telepathy?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Have a Google account in your phone, and opened in a browser tab
2. Chat with some IM contact, using telepathy
3. Notifications of what the other person replies are received both in phone and in browser tab

Actual Results:  
You have to manually mark them as read, either from the phone or from the browser tab.

Expected Results:  
Conversation should be marked as read in phone and browser.

Comment 1 Martin Klapetek 2014-02-27 15:54:55 UTC

Thanks for the report.

We do everything we should be doing when we receive a message (we send delivery reports back to Google). Nothing more we can do.

This can possibly be a bug in an upstream component that talks to gabble, bugs to that should be filed at bugs.freedesktop.org - product telepathy - component gabble. Reference this bug if you're going to file one there. It can also be a bug at Google's.

Sorry we can't help more.