[Gossip-dev] 0.11 Feedback

[Martyn Russell]

On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 14:43 +0200, Mikael Hallendal wrote:
> Michael Gratton skrev:
> > On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 13:20 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> >> Regarding the size of the window, I might make it a bit bigger, but if
> >> 350x250 isn't the perfect size what is? :)
> 
> The current size of the chat window was based on mine and Richards
> preferences on a good size for the chat window.
> 
> > Probably the same size it was when the user last closed it.
> > 
> > If the chat window size was saved in the same way as the roster window
> > is, then people could make it as large or as small as they liked.
> > Discussion could then focus on more important things, like the position
> > of the close button. ;)
> 
> However, that doesn't work very well when taking multiple chat windows
> into account. Ie. I might have one window with work related chats in and
> another with private discussions. These windows might have different
> sizes, which one would you save?

I was going to say the same thing, especially when using group chat when
I naturally make the window bigger because of the contact list addition.

The idea of saving size against JID (as in
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141855) is a good one, but it
might be confusing to some people who will expect it to remember the
position regardless of who you talk to.

My idea was to save the size of the internal part of the chat window
(used for normal and group chat), then we could just add the contact
list width onto the window width for group chats keeping the actual
message area consistent. 

-- 
Regards,
Martyn