[Gossip-dev] Saving window size/position and group

[CJ van den Berg]

On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 01:46:00PM +0100, Martyn Russell wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 14:35 +0200, CJ van den Berg wrote:
> > Thanks!  It's an improvement.
> > 
> > I still think it would be a very useful to gossip remember tab groupings
> > though. The way it is now is a little confusing because the position of the
> > tab group window is dependant on which contact you happen to click on first.
> > Wouldn't it be better to at least save the same coordinates for all contacts
> > in a tab group?
> 
> I agree. But I think that if you have a separate tab group for one
> contact and a window already open with 4 contacts in it, the user will
> get confused if the new contact opens in their own window.

Why would the user be confused if they explicitly separated the contact from
the tab group previously? Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but that sounds
like ideal behaviour to me.

> It also means that the "Open chats in separate windows" preference is not
> explicit, it would mean that either:
> 
>   * You always open in a new window for chats
> 
>   or
> 
>   * You sometimes depending on the tab group use an existing window.

If you always remember which tab group a contact belongs in I think the
preference looses it's usefulness almost entirely and could probably be
removed completely (yay!), or possibly renamed to "Open first time chats in
new windows" or something. (but that's probably more confusing than it's
worth)

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CJ van den Berg

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