late666 | # 1 | 2010-12-25, 12:06 | Report

What's the point of having the widget or Maemo shows you the contents of the text message if you still have to go in it for it to be marked as read?

Is there or can we develop a way of marking text messages as read in a more convenient way?

Like if you close the preview window of an incoming text message instead of pressing on it, it would mark it as read.

I don't even mind having some kind of separate widget to just mark all unread texts as read on your desktop or something.

late666 | # 2 | 2010-12-26, 18:10 | Report

Really?


No one else is bugged by this? Having to open up the text message just to make it read?

FRuMMaGe | # 3 | 2010-12-26, 18:52 | Report

I would also like to see something like this. It has been bugging me for a while now

LippiVan | # 4 | 2010-12-26, 23:23 | Report

totally agree with you. very annoying.

slender | # 5 | 2010-12-26, 23:32 | Report

IIRC
click little icon in bottom left on widget.

I´m sorry but in most use cases what you are saying here doesn´t make lot sense.

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Last edited by slender; 2010-12-26 at 23:36.

rahularora21 | # 6 | 2010-12-27, 15:09 | Report

wat abt deleting multiple texts in a convo??
can we select and delete more than one text in a conversation without deleting the whole of it??

Char | # 7 | 2010-12-28, 17:57 | Report

if you click the number in the bottom left of the conversation widget it marks it as read.

Doctor Patch | # 8 | 2011-01-17, 02:39 | Report

This misses the point. I have plenty of 'phantom' unread messages which don't get displayed by the widget. I can post screen shots if you don't believe me...

The conversations application shows that I have loads of unread messages from certain contacts but there's no way of navigating them or even ascertaining which ones they are. I suspect that the IM ones are generated by being logged in in more than one place and recieving multiple messages in a short space of time. I'm not sure how the text message ones are generated; for some contacts I've opened every single message they've ever sent to me and I still have unread messages from them. Either there are hidden messages (bug) or the unread count implementation is buggy.

What I'd like is a simple option to "mark all messages as read"
or "mark all messages from this contact as read".

Char | # 9 | 2011-01-17, 08:16 | Report

that could be possible with a bit of sql magic
see: ~/.rtcom-eventlogger/el-v1.db

i did a minor bit of research
xterminal:
don't miss the ;
(the cp step is optional, it just backs up your database in case something goes wrong)
and all your messages will be marked as read
if you simply want to see your unread messages then
will work inside sqlite3

if something wrong happens simply copy el-v1.db.bak back to el-v1.db and killall rtcom-messaging-ui, everything /should/ be fine again

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Doctor Patch | # 10 | 2011-01-18, 17:47 | Report

I'm not entirely convinced that event_type_id = 11 is correct above; at least it wasn't for me.

You did however point me in the direction of a solution. Thank you!

The code that solved the problem for me was the following:

This has removed the spurious unread marks in the conversations application. Success! However, it's not corrected the unread counts within the Conversations Inbox desktop widget which seems to be getting its unread marks from elsewhere. I'll try rebooting to see whether that helps; removing and readding the widget did not.