The endlessly blinking taskbar button is very annoying. I set the taskbar buttons to not steal focus and only blink three times in Tweak UI, but Spark seems to override that setting and blink until I press it. I can turn off notifications in conference rooms to disable it, but that will also disable my “toast” notifications as well. I want my toast notifications, but I do not want the blinking taskbar button. If it is going to blink, I’d like the option to set the number of blinks or have it not override Windows’ own setting that I specified with Tweak UI.
it’s quite hard to get (new) feature requests added by Jivesoftware but one can always submit a patch which solves this. I also don’t like icons which flash longer than 3 times.
the flashing was driving us crazy as well. We have a patch at hand and will forward it to cstux, as he is currently the maintainer of the trunk. Should be fixed.
I just wanted to add, that not flashing at all was driving me crazy If you miss the toast, then you dont know if there is a new mesage, so you have to check the chat window constantly. Not very pleasant thing. So, some kind of taskbar indication should stay (ok with 3 times flashing and then glowing constantly to drive my attention).
Cool, can you tell me which plugin should I keep an eye out for and is there a way to setup a subscription so I’m simply emailed a ‘plugin udpate’ when it comes out? if not thats okay I’ll simply periodically check.
I’m assuming svn stands for s ubversion, can you let me know where I can find and install this, sorry if this question seems like im not reading but i checked around and downloaded what i thought was the latest 2vn (2.5.8) but I’m beginning to think i totally barked up the wrong tree. is it ina spark build or do I need to find the flashing plugin?
I can upload the flashing.jar plugin here, but this won’t work with the official Spark version. You have to compile new version of the current source code (yes, from the subversion) and flashing plugin will be included there. If you do want to compile it, when i can give you a guide how to do it with Netbeans and some svn client. Or maybe you should just wait for a 2.6.0 release or next beta or so. Cant tell you when
hm okay, if theres already a guide for it and its possible can you post me the links? even if 2.6 comes out tomorrow it would be cool to learn how to do that stuff.
can i compile it in windows or does that have to be done in linux? (the client machine is windows if that matters)