On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 02:49:25PM +0100, Boris Faure (aka billiob) wrote: > > btw.. Tom was working on an implementation of a text widget using canvas or > > tkhtml... where's that work ? disappeared > > forever? and what's the status ? Tom, could you maybe add that work to SVN > > in a new directory or branch or something ? > > Tom has still that idea in mind, but tkhtml is not yet ready. The main > issue is that we can't just modify a small part of a document (a > Node). That's why if we want to use tkhtml for the CL or the CW, it'll > have to redraw all the widget each time a small part change. > ah ok.. that's not good, I guess.. are you sure we can't access a node directly, modify it and tell tkhtml to refresh ? if no, did anyone post this enhancement request to the tkhtml team ?
> > Also, we did have a bg-enabled CL, I know it was working well, but had some > > bugs, then it was dropped.. question is.. > > why dropped ? who decided to drop it and what were the reasons.. sorry if I > > missed the discussion and I'm reopening it.. > > but I'm just wondering why all that work got thrown away ? > Don't worry, they are not really thrown away, it's just that we don't > have enough resources. > But i don't know why we don't use it. > ok.. but afaik, it's said that 'we won't use it'.. maybe it was because we were expecting to use tkhtml from tom's work.. don't know. Anyways, if it's not the plan to throw it away, then I suggest we switch to that new CL, so if all agree, we should add in the latest SVN enable the new canvas CL and have it replace the old one (not as a separate window, but instead directly in the main window). This way, we'll be sure it's gonna be used, tested and bugfixed. So we can have this all new performant CL. btw, iirc it was a lot better in performance, am i right or did it loose its efficiency once it got more advanced features incorporated ? if it's better, then we should definitely use it as we have so many reports on the forums of people having 200 (sometimes 400+)_ contacts who complain about amsn being unusable and I think it's a shame to tell them "you need to hide your offline group" since it shows that our code is poor and it's not a good solution since some people want their offline group expanded. > > And damn these look nice!!! > > http://amsn.sourceforge.net/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=GUI+Team+Sandbox > Those images are just mockups. But that's what we've planned to do > when tkhtml will be ready. > yeah I know, I just LOVE them :) especially the CL window... I'd really like to see that in the new 'offline' CL. As I said before, I'd like work to be done on the profiles and have the new profile system set up because the current one is SO ugly, so bad, so unusable and so un-user friendly to any new user... it's so not intuitive.. so we should really change that. So to summarize, my proposition is : incorporate the new CL officially, EVEN if it's unusable, it will just force us to fix the bugs, othewise we'll never do it. And start working on the offline main window with the new easy 'remember/forget me' profiling GUI. KaKaRoto ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Amsn-devel mailing list Amsn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amsn-devel
