[Gossip-dev] Bug in typing notification?

[Mikael Hallendal]

26 apr 2006 kl. 12.10 skrev CJ van den Berg:

> On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 11:37:00PM +0930, Michael Gratton wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
>>   |'---------------------------------------------'|
>>   |.-------------------------.                    |
>>   ||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.
>
> I think the send button is important enough to warrant this because
> pressing return to send is not obvious to everyone and it's not
> discoverable. (ie. there isn't even a menu item or tooltip that  
> mentions
> this)
>
> For the smiley list though I don't think it's necessary. Perhaps it  
> should
> be left just on the menu like it is now and perhaps pop-up  
> (unobtrusively
> somehow) when the user types <space><colon> into the entry widget?

I think the smiley list makes more sense than the send button. But,  
with the smiley list there it would be odd without a send button so  
I'd vote fore both personally.

Having a <space><colon> triggered popup would be quite annoying and  
would also require that:

1) You know how to write smileys
2) All smileys start with :

Cheers,
   Mikael Hallendal