[Gossip-dev] GUADEC BOF

[Martyn Russell]

Guys,

Now that GUADEC is over, I thought I would post a list of ideas
presented by everyone that attended the BOF for Instant Messaging in
GNOME. I will comment on these ideas too and would appreciate your
thoughts :) 

Ideas:

* Use combo box entry completion in presence dialog.
* Detect where the panel is and put the presence chooser closest to it.
* Don't show "<state> Custom Message..." and "<state> <state string>" in
presence menu, only show one which always shows the dialog.
* Flash notification area for 15 seconds and then stay static, if away
keep flashing until available for the first 15 seconds.
* Perhaps show most recent contacts spoken to in Peekaboo and/or make it
configurable who you show.
* Searching in roster like Firefox (i.e. Ctrl+F shows a small toolbar at
the bottom of the roster window with next/highlight/etc options).
* Gimmie support for Gossip (currently this uses DBus with GAIM only it
should be easy to write a patch for this).
* DBUS API for Gossip to set visibility in notification area based on
use of Peekaboo.
* Add "hidden" presence state.
* Presence for groups of people, e.g. Show busy for work colleagues and
available for friends and/or be able to do this on a per contact basis?
* Set end of conversation in logs based on long time between messages or
online/offline state changes (not quick online/offline changes).
* Revise the Beagle log patch to get the current logging working.
* Show older chat messages in a different colour to make it obvious it
is an older conversation.
* Have an image for accounts so it can be used in places like the 
chatroom window.
* Have a menu in the log window so we can quit instead of having a close
button but also have delete log, etc in there.
* Show multiple accounts in the chatroom window with an ALL item and
make other accounts selectable even if not connected.
* Perhaps make use of www.plazes.com information which works out where
you are in the world based on your network topology and save that
information to the log so that Beagle will find conversations when you
search for "Barcelona Richard".

Does anyone have anything extra to add here?

-- 
Regards,
Martyn