[horde] Browser notification keeps nagging

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Daniel Kraus <dk at doktorkraus.de>:

> On Thu Jun 23 2016 09:17:57 GMT+0200 (CEST), Jan Schneider
> <jan at horde.org> wrote:
>
>> Zitat von Daniel Kraus <dk at doktorkraus.de>:
>>
>>> On Wed Jun 22 2016 16:11:47 GMT+0200 (CEST), Jan Schneider
>>> <jan at horde.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Zitat von Daniel Kraus <dk at doktorkraus.de>:
>>>>
>>>>> Dear all,
>>>>>
>>>>> the browser notification for a Horde task keeps nagging me.
>>>>>
>>>>> The task is definitively marked as completed, and even the due date
>>>>> that
>>>>> I had set has passed. Still, the browser notifications for this
>>>>> particular task keep appearing with every click in Horde.
>>>>>
>>>>> What am I missing, how can I turn this off (without generally blocking
>>>>> browser notifications from Horde)?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>>>
>>>>> Daniel
>>>>
>>>> Dismiss the notification? Also make sure that this isn't a recurring
>>>> task.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks for the response. No, it wasn't a recurring task. But here's a
>>> very strange observation: The notifications kept popping up with
>>> Chromium 50.0.2661.102 (Ubuntu 16.04). When I visited the site with
>>> Firefox 47.0, the notification (for the completed, historical task)
>>> appeared once, but never again after dismissing it. Interestingly, going
>>> back to Chromium, the notification no longer appeared either!
>>>
>>> So, the problem is solved, but the question remains for me why Chromium
>>> doesn't properly dismiss notifications, but accepts when another browser
>>> has dismissed one.
>>>
>>> Daniel
>>
>> We do talk about the horde-style notifications in the bottom right
>> corner, right? Not about the desktop notifications.
>
> No, not the ones in the bottom-right corner, but the browser desktop
> notifications.
>
>>
>> Do you see any Javascript errors in the browser console? Or any errors
>> in the horde/PHP logs?
>
> No errors in the browser console or in the server logs.
>
> I can reproduce this with new tasks: Set the due date to this morning,
> enable reminder, mark the task as done, and the notifications keep
> appearing, even when I log into Horde with another browser that has
> never seen this task in the 'active' state. There should be no
> notifications for completed tasks -- I believe this might be an issue
> with Horde.
>
> Only when I check "done" in the initial task creation form, I will never
> get to see notifications.

This is a bug in Chrome then.

> (Another, browser-related usability problem that I discovered is this:
> When notifications are 'dismissed' by clicking the X in the top-right
> corner, the keep re-appearing. They can be dismissed for good by
> clicking into the client area of the notification. This won't give any
> visual feedback in either Chromium or Firefox, but afterwards the
> notification is gone for good.)

Desktop notifications don't allow interaction back to the server.  
Horde isn't notified about dismissed desktop notifications.


-- 
Jan Schneider
The Horde Project
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