[Gossip-dev] ANNOUNCE: Gossip 0.14

[Martyn Russell]

On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 10:22 +0200, Sjoerd Simons wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 09:14:29AM +0100, Martyn Russell wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 21:24 -0600, Jeremy Nickurak wrote:
> > > Also, whenever I restart gossip, conversations I've deleted with the
> > > clear command like to come back from the dead. Known issue? (This
> > > affected 0.12 too)
> > 
> > Whenever you start Gossip it will always show the last 'n' messages
> > regardless to you clearing the conversation window. This is a feature
> > since a lot of people like to know what was last said (especially if
> > Gossip crashes or someone sends a message just as you quit, etc).
> 
> That's indeed a nice feature to have. But maybe it should have a limit on how
> old such a message can be. It's a little strange to see a new chat window start
> with messages from over a month ago :)

Maybe, but the date is there so you know when it was, I don't see the
problem myself. If I start chatting with someone (as I did the other
day) that I had not spoken to in a while, I think, man, that was a while
back when I last spoke to them.

I have no real preference to be honest, but I can't see a problem with
it. At least now it is consistent, if it didn't show the last message
sometimes, that might confuse users.

-- 
Regards,
Martyn