Weird behaviors with "message counter" and "reset message counter" with Coccinella. Any feedback?

Hi everybody,

I have just started to use Coccinella 0.96.12 (on a MacOS X 10.5.x) as a jabber client. In the past, I have used gaim, AdiumX, Psi and iChat.

All of these softwares have advantages and drawbacks. Therefore, I have given a try to a different one... Coccinella.

So far, it meets all my expectations... but it has 2 very annoying behaviors which I would say are close to be bugs (or unfinished features). Here they are:

1- Interaction(s) with the Dock:
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When Coccinella is started and it is in the background, then you see in the dock the number of new chat messages received since the software was at the forefront. This is good, as you can quickly be aware of new incoming messages.

However, when you put the software at the forefront, you don't know which of the chat window(s) or chatroom window(s) has had new messages. Other softwares like iChat for instance will go directly to the window having new messages... when clicking to the dock icon. Furthermore, with iChat, if several windows received new messages, the Dock icon can be used to go to each of these windows one after the other.

The equivalent feature in Coccinella becomes almost useless.

I wonder if the described behavior is intended, still in development, or not working as expected.

2- The message counter on top of each Coccinella chat/chatroom window:
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In many of the chat software used, you have a counter of new messages showing all the new incoming messages on a particular chat/chatroom window not seen by the user. Once you go to the particular window, then the counter number disappears.

In Coccinella, it seems that you do have similar feature. However, it seems to work very badly. Let me give a couple of examples of what I see:

a/ If I use Coccinella and someone sends me a new chat message on a window am not on, then the counter is not updated. In other word, I don't get informed of new updates in a particular chat/chatroom windows not being in front.

b/ If I use Coccinella (but in the background), I can see in the Dock that new messages came. I can also see the counter number incremented on each related chat/chatroom window. However, when I go to each of these windows, the counter does not reset and the number in parenthesis remains.

This "reset counter" management is, for me, the most important issue I seen with the Coccinella.

Here again, I wonder if the described behavior is intended, still in development, or not working as expected.

As I have seen that the newer version of Coccinella (0.96.14) is expected to be released soon (end of the month), I wanted to get a feedback from other Coccinella users (MacOSX users or not) and from developers.

Again, apart from these 2 problems, I really find that software great.

Thank you for your feedback and comments.
/Damien.