[horde] Browser notification keeps nagging

[Daniel Kraus]

On Thu Jun 23 2016 10:45:13 GMT+0200 (CEST), Jan Schneider
<jan at horde.org> wrote:

> 
> 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.

Except I can reproduce it with Firefox on Ubuntu. Moreover, this
morning, when logging into Horde using Firefox (which is not my default
browser), I saw a whole bunch of notifications for test tasks that I had
created and marked completed yesterday.

> 
>> (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.

It's probably not so much about dismissing than about triggering a
notification. I guess if browsers remember that a site had requested to
show a notification, they could keep showing it even if the site no
longer 'asks' to display the desktop notifications. But:

The fact that one browser displays desktop notifications for a task that
has been created and subsequently marked completed in an entirely
different browser suggests that Horde triggers desktop notifications for
completed tasks.