[Gossip-dev] Bug in typing notification?

[Brian Pepple]

On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 09:52 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 10:08 +0200, Keywan Najafi Tonekaboni wrote:
> > > Huh?
> > > 
> > > Do you mean hide the menu if they choose in the preferences to NOT use
> > > smileys? I have thought about doing this actually. If this is what you
> > > meant could you bugzilla it and I will find time to do that :)
> > > 
> > 
> > No, sorry. It was late .. I think the most users will not recognize the
> > smiley-menu as an submenu of Edit or of the context menu. I'm not sure
> > where it could be placed more visible, like in Gaim, Yahoo etc. Maybe on
> > the right of the input field...
> > On the other side Gossip has a very clean GUI.
> 
> Yes, it is a clean interface.
> 
> Actually, my mother came round my house recently and used Gossip quickly
> and the first thing she said after she had typed her message was, "How
> do I send it?" 
> 
> Perhaps we need a send button? I am open to comments on this. 
> 
> If I do add any buttons then I would definitely have one for the
> emoticons but until then, it is also available in the right mouse click
> context menu for the send GtkTextView.
> 
> I think Gajim's chat window (see attachment) is ok, but I would like to
> hear more from users before I do anything here.
> 

Gajim's chat window is alright, the only thing I don't care about it is
the banner at the top with the Contact's name.  Seems a bit redundant
considering the information is already included in the window title.  It
might also be worth mocking up something with a more traditional toolbar
(under the menu, instead of at the bottom of the window) to see how that
looks.

/B
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