The Community Activity Panel does not show new invite requests until you close and re-open

[adilwali]

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Describe the issue

On the QT Wallet, Invite Requests are not shown to a new user until they close and re-open the wallet. If a user installs Merit, keeps it open (eg, mining), receives and invite, and then shares with a friend, they will see no pending requests.

Can you reliably reproduce the issue?

If so, please list the steps to reproduce below:

1. Install Merit for WalletA; Unlock Wallet
2. Install Merit for WalletB on another client/machine.
3. Enter the invite code from WalletA.
4. Nothing will change in the WalletA Community Activity Section

Expected behaviour

The user should see the "Empty State" visual disappear and be replaced with the pending invitation requests they have.

Actual behaviour

The UI does not change at all when the user receives an invitation request.

Screenshots.

This is what the user sees:

This is what they should see:

What version of merit-core are you using?

V04.4.0

Machine specs:

• OS: Windows 10 Build 1709
• CPU: i9-7980XE
• RAM: 12GB
• Disk size: 36GB
• Disk Type (HD/SDD): SDD
• Virtualization: VMWare Workstation 14.4 (Ubuntu 17.10 Host)

Any extra information that might be useful in the debugging process.

This is normally the contents of a debug.log or config.log file. Raw text or a link to a pastebin type site are preferred.