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Chat/PM: Notifications occasionally give wrong text

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ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#1009 · opened 2013-01-29 by MrSchism · updated 2013-11-05 · 9 comments · github
MMrSchism 2013-01-29 github

System Info: https://gist.github.com/385f8ecd3425deeecd9f

This was noticed the other day when chatting with a member of the Steam for Linux group. They sent me a message while I was in game (Dynamite Jack which is giving me other overlay issues) and the text of the notification was incorrect and actually a snippet of a conversation they had had with someone else the day prior.

The text they sent me was not the text in the notification.

This does bring up a small privacy concern, but the bigger concern (as far as I'm concerned) is the fact that the notification and the chat text weren't the same.

If I can reproduce, I'll attempt to get screenshots. I didn't think of it at the time of the notification and by the time I could take a screenshot, the notification had gone away.

Ggdrewb-valve maintainer 2013-01-29 github

DId you have any luck reproing it?

MMrSchism 2013-01-29 github

I'm going to attempt that this evening, actually. I'll post any results.

Ggdrewb-valve maintainer 2013-01-31 github

Any luck?

MMrSchism 2013-02-01 github

No luck. I know that some progress has been made with the web chat client. I couldn't help but wonder if maybe it was a caching issue that effected the messaging service that was introduced with the web chat, but was resolved during an update to that service.

I'll close for now and reopen if I can get some evidence. I had the person (Tele42) send me messages while I was full-screen, windowed, and at three different resolutions on two different OSes to no avail.

Ggdrewb-valve maintainer 2013-02-01 github

Thanks for trying it out.

MMrSchism 2013-02-04 github

I just had it happen again. Same person, different text.

Notification popped up from Tele42. It read: "Tele42: winXP?"
What showed up in chat: Tele42: mind if I run a thought past you"

I had the Linux Beta Access chat open (minimized), as well as the Steam library window and the Friends list open (both hidden behind my Chromium). I was actually here on github (doing my moderator thing) when I got the pop-up.

Tele42 was in the chat and opened a PM to me from the Chat window.

Tele42 is running "gentoo 64bit no steam_runtime / cinnamon 1.6.7 with gnome 3.6.2"

According to Tele42, no message with that content has been sent within the past 72 hours and not on this login.

Ggdrewb-valve maintainer 2013-11-05 github

Have you seen this recently?

TTele42 2013-11-05 github

@gdrewb-valve I have not seen it since on my end.

Ggdrewb-valve maintainer 2013-11-05 github

Thanks, closing pending somebody else reporting a repro.

Nothing extracted yet.