[Gossip-dev] Bug in typing notification?

[Brian Pepple]

On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 15:32 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 23:37 +0930, Michael Gratton wrote: 
> > 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'm not much of a fan of the buttons being to the right of the entry
box.  I agree with Michael that it appears to be too cramped looking.

/B
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