[Gossip-dev] Bug in typing notification?

[Martyn Russell]

On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 23:37 +0930, Michael Gratton wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 14:29 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote:
> > > > I think Gajim's chat window (see attachment) is ok, but I would like to
> > > > hear more from users before I do anything here.
> [snip]
> > Are there any other comments on this? I want to hear what people have to
> > say on this :)
> 
> The stuff under the actions button I think really belongs in the menu
> bar, but having an emoticon and send button is probably a good idea.
> Maybe inline with the entry field, aligned with the bottom of it and
> positioned at the end, so it is more obvious what they are associated
> with? Eg:
> 
>   |'---------------------------------------------'|
>   |.-------------------------. .------. .--------.|
>   ||Hi, mum!                 | | :) V | | > Send ||
>   |'-------------------------' '------' '--------'|
>   \-----------------------------------------------/
> 
> 
>   |'---------------------------------------------'|
>   |.-------------------------.                    |
>   ||Hi, mum! A bit more text | .------. .--------.|
>   ||spills to a new line..   | | :) V | | > Send ||
>   |'-------------------------' '------' '--------'|
>   \-----------------------------------------------/
> 
> This kind-of sucks because you can't enter anything as wide as the full
> chat window and so it may feel a bit cramped, but as messages can get
> wrapped arbitrarily anyway, perhaps this would not matter too much.

Yea, this was my thinking too. I haven't decided if I like it better as
buttons above or below or to the right.

> I prefer Gajim's larger default chat window size, but maybe Gossip
> should just remember the last size and/or position and reuse that?

I think we could make the window slightly wider if we did this because
of the extra buttons.

> Does anyone know how the "[Nickname] is paying attention to this
> conversation" / "[Nickname] is doing something else" thing that Gajim
> does works? I assume it is based on if the chat window has the focus?
> That would be nice to see in Gossip. JEP-0085 looks really useful.

Mmm, it can be quite a distraction if that keeps changing though. I
agree, it has its uses. It wouldn't be all that hard to do, we already
do the typing which is one of the extensions I believe.

-- 
Regards,
Martyn