source.unseenCount's strange behavior

[Thiago Bellini Ribeiro <hackedbellini gmail com>]

Hi all,

I'm the developer of Notifications Alert extension[1].

I was updating it to work with 3.6, testing it on
ubuntu-gnome-remix[2] that I downloaded today (I'm on Debian Testing
and it will take a long time before I can play with 3.6 here =P).

On 3.2 and 3.4, what my extension did was: Every time a notifications
was created, destroyed or had it's count updated, I checked if any
source had '_counterBin' visible and it's count was != '0'. That to
check for chat notifications. To check for simple notifications
(notify-send alikes), I checked each 'source.notifications' and if it
had one not resident, it would get alerted too (excluding resident to
not notify for Rhythmbox notifications for example, that doesn't go
away on clicking).

Taking a look at the source code[3], I noticed that there's a new api
for notification's source, 'unseenCount'.
When I first look at it, I thought it would be perfect for what I want
(to check for chat notifications). If a notification has unseen
notifications, it needs to get alerted (and vice-versa). It worked ok
for chat notifications, and for simple notifications (notify-send
alikes), I just continued to check for not resident notifications. But
something strange happened: Rhythmbox's notification had it's
'source.unseenCount' returning 1 always. Even if I click on the
notification and then on the notification's popup, it never gets
acknowledged.

Is this the expected behavior or is this a bug? What would be the
right way to check what I'm checking?
To help, this is the check I'm doing[4]. I'm using
'source.countVisible' to check, but I don't think that it's the right
thing to do..

Thanks in advance and sorry for my poor english (I'm Brazilian),

[1] https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/258
[2] ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/misc/ubuntu-gnome-remix/
[3] http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell/tree/js/ui/messageTray.js
[4] https://github.com/hackedbellini/Gnome-Shell-Notifications-Alert/blob/master/src/extension.js#L106

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