[Gossip-dev] ANNOUNCE: Gossip 0.14

[CJ van den Berg]

On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 09:29:14AM +0100, Martyn Russell wrote:
> 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.

I think respecting the clear command across restarts would be a useful
feature, but besides that I think the current behaviour is excellent.

Gajim greys out messages from before the window was last closed and I find
it less than intuitive. I really like that with I can close a window and
open it again and carry on where I left off without it munging up the
conversation history. Gajim also removes the history after a predefined
period, but it's not really useful unless you know and/or define the period
yourself. Which, IMHO, adds more preferences than it's worth.

A clear command that sticks across restarts would be all that's needed
(IMO).

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CJ van den Berg

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