[Gossip-dev] Bug in typing notification?

[Martyn Russell]

On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 08:33 -0400, Brian Pepple wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 09:52 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote:
> > > 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.

Yea, I don't like that either. But I was really only thinking about the
lower part of the Window where the send button is and the other sort of
buttons you might expect around there, for emoticons/formatting/etc.

Are there any other comments on this? I want to hear what people have to
say on this :)

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Regards,
Martyn