[Gossip-dev] ANNOUNCE: Gossip 0.14

[Mikael Hallendal]

8 aug 2006 kl. 10.48 skrev Keywan Najafi Tonekaboni:

Hi,

I agree with Sjoerd on this one, the reason for showing old messages  
is to possibly get a context about what was spoken about last. And it  
pretty much only serve a purpose if it's close enough in time to  
actually be relevant or it will possibly only be a distraction.

We should also grey it out to show it's an old conversation but a  
deadline of a day or so would be pretty good (that way if you talk to  
someone the day before and you have to end you will still get a way  
to tie back to that conversation the day after). Possibly cause for a  
setting though since it somewhat depends on what you use it for.

As a home user I can see Martyns idea of "wow, long time since I  
talked to this guy, let's give him some time" useful. But in an  
office environment that is pretty irrelevant and conversations are  
more context based rather than just staying in touch.

Cheers,
   Mikael Hallendal

> Hi,
>
> Am Dienstag, den 08.08.2006, 09:29 +0100 schrieb Martyn Russell:
>> On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 10:22 +0200, Sjoerd Simons wrote:
>>> 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.
>
> There was the idea to make the old messages grey or something, so you
> can recognize immediately, if the messages are from this  
> conversation or
> from an old one.
>
> I think this will solve problems without timeouts/deadlines :)
>
> Regards,
>
> Keywan
>
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