On 06/05/11 02:08, Danielle Madeley wrote:
On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 17:05 +0200, Guillaume Desmottes wrote:
Not really, we could easily imagine being online without having Empathy
running without having a people tab: user will just have to start
Empathy to see his contact list.
If we don't allow
On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 17:05 +0200, Guillaume Desmottes wrote:
Not really, we could easily imagine being online without having Empathy
running without having a people tab: user will just have to start
Empathy to see his contact list.
If we don't allow that atm, it's mainly because:
A) The
On 29/04/11 17:23, William Jon McCann wrote:
So, my quick recommendations:
1. Contacts
* A new application exclusive to and designed for GNOME
* Searchable through the OS overview
- Activating search results opens contact in Contacts app
* App is primarily search based as well
Le Sat, 30 Apr 2011 01:38:30 +1200,
John Stowers john.stowers.li...@gmail.com a écrit :
On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 16:20 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
I'm not sure we really want a separate people tab in the overview. I
know it is tempting, now that we have these 'tabs', to just keep
adding
Hi,
Travis Reitter wrote:
In general, I think there are a few scales of contact sources we should
consider (from smallest to largest / most- to least-frequent
communication):
* favorites
* local address book, IM contacts, web services (including Facebook)
* remote directory (eg, LDAP)
Hey Alex!
This is great. I've been doing some work on this recently, and we seem
to be thinking about the same problems (good thing!)
Alexander Larsson wrote:
I've been looking at the contact feature for Gnome 3.2 [1], trying to
understand what we want from this and how it would look. The
Hi!
* Contacts search (but no contacts tab) in the shell overview, which
will provide a quick way to initiate conversations.
While I see the point of not having another tab I still think the shell
integration of IM currently suffers from the fact that empathy still needs
to be around and
On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 16:20 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
I'm not sure we really want a separate people tab in the overview. I
know it is tempting, now that we have these 'tabs', to just keep
adding on there: places, documents, contacts, what have you... but I
think it will lead to a clunky
On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 13:19 +0100, Allan Day wrote:
In general, then, my current position is that, despite it not being the
primary way in which people will access messaging, we do still need a
dedicated contacts app. I am open to being convinced that an integrated
IM/contacts app would work,
On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 16:13 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 13:19 +0100, Allan Day wrote:
In general, then, my current position is that, despite it not being the
primary way in which people will access messaging, we do still need a
dedicated contacts app. I am open
On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 16:13 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
My main fears in a setup like this is:
* Conceptually a chat app needs to be running all the time when you're
online (as you might get a message), but generally you don't want to see
it all the time. With us not having a good
On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 09:30 -0500, Jonathon Jongsma wrote:
On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 16:13 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
My main fears in a setup like this is:
* Conceptually a chat app needs to be running all the time when you're
online (as you might get a message), but generally you
Le vendredi 29 avril 2011 à 14:31 +0200, Johannes Schmid a écrit :
Hi!
* Contacts search (but no contacts tab) in the shell overview, which
will provide a quick way to initiate conversations.
While I see the point of not having another tab I still think the shell
integration of IM
Le vendredi 29 avril 2011 à 09:30 -0500, Jonathon Jongsma a écrit :
On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 16:13 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
My main fears in a setup like this is:
* Conceptually a chat app needs to be running all the time when you're
online (as you might get a message), but
Hi,
Some very brief thoughts.
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Alexander Larsson al...@redhat.com wrote:
On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 13:19 +0100, Allan Day wrote:
In general, then, my current position is that, despite it not being the
primary way in which people will access messaging, we do still
Hi Dave,
On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 10:46 +0200, Dave Neary wrote:
Hi,
Travis Reitter wrote:
In general, I think there are a few scales of contact sources we should
consider (from smallest to largest / most- to least-frequent
communication):
* favorites
* local address book, IM
Hi,
Travis Reitter wrote:
What are some use cases for the set (favorites - frequent contacts)?
It's like recent documents, I suppose.
Cell-phone/SMS/chat - recent calls/message history
And in the Contact app, it'd be like a speed dial tab - the people you
speak with most sitting right there.
On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 14:31 +0200, Johannes Schmid wrote:
them. People often have weird nicknames anyway, that I don't remember but
which I can recognize when I see them in a list and searching is not
particularly helpful here.
I don't think this will be too big of an issue for most people.
(Sent again, didn't seem to reach the list last time)
On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 11:23 -0400, William Jon McCann wrote:
Another thing is that using Overview views for information types that
are nearly unbounded like people is really difficult. Browsing
isn't really a good interface for things
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 8:43 AM, Alexander Larsson al...@redhat.com wrote:
* An icon in the system tray area which gives dropdown with online
and recent contact shortcuts, as well as an item to open the
contacts.
* A people tab in the overview
* Return contacts when searching in the
On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 16:20 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
One more addition for your 'tasks involving contacts' list:
* Schedule a meeting and invite participants
Speaking of corporatey use cases, the traditional address book is still
used as a view of directory services like a company roster
On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 14:43 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
So, what kind of things do we now want to do with our contacts
information? Here is a pretty comprehensive list of things that you
might need contact information for.
snip
Another long-term (after Gnome 3.2) class of use cases I'd
On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 16:43 -0400, Matthew Barnes wrote:
On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 16:20 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
One more addition for your 'tasks involving contacts' list:
* Schedule a meeting and invite participants
Speaking of corporatey use cases, the traditional address book is
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