Chat windows fail to close properly when I close e.g. a running activity they are on. The contacts window closes fine, as do other applications, but because the chat window is still running I still receive notifications and instant messages from the people involved, even after shutting down the application. A less serious issue, but the same thing appears to occur on shut-down - the window does not close/the application does not quit when others (KMail, KTP Contacts, Plasma, KWin) do. Reproducible: Always
I believe this is due to the text-ui being started by dbus (which is a special way of starting apps as basically it's not you who is starting it but the system/dbus is). Not sure how could that be solved though.
"The contacts window closes fine, as do other applications, but because the chat window is still running I still receive notifications and instant messages from the people involved, even after shutting down the application." That's by design. When you go close the window it doesn't set you as offline. There is a plasmoid you can add to the system tray to show your online status. Can you confirm this report is about the chat window staying open, not about remaining online when you close the windows.
Can someone clarify which information is needed to further investigate this issue?
David's last question - "Can you confirm this report is about the chat window staying open, not about remaining online when you close the windows?"
Marcus, if you can provide the information requested in comment #4, please add it.
Sorry. Yes, this bug is specifically about the chat window remaining open. One's status remaining online is a separate issue from my understanding.
Ok, thanks. Switching to unconfirmed as I tried to set up activities (I don't use them) to test but I was so confused and had no idea how to actually reproduce. Can someone using activities please confirm?
Getting back to this issue... Marcus - can you please describe in simple steps on howto reproduce this issue and in the end what happens and then what do you think it should happen instead? Thanks.
The symptom that affects me the most is when logging out/logging back in. - Go to System Settings->Startup and Shutdown->Session Management and ensure "On Login"->"Restore previous session" is selected - Open a chat window with someone, or multiple people, using the Telepathy Contacts application - Log out - Log back in What should happen: The previous chat window/tabs should restore correctly What actually happens: The previous chat window/tabs fail to restore correctly I *believe* this is because the chat window fails to close correctly while other applications do not, but that is pure speculation on my part.
Ah! Now I understand. No, it's a different reason and has to do with Telepathy architecture. Basically each chat tab you open means one new Telepathy channel is created. When you log out, all channels are cleared, so when you reopen text-ui, no channels exist and therefore no tabs are added back. We could possible make it restart the channels on session restore (we do on connection drop out), but no promises :)