Feature Requests item #1434173, was opened at 2006-02-18 10:42 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by lschiere You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=350235&aid=1434173&group_id=235
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: gtk-ui Group: None >Status: Closed Resolution: None Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: Jeff Kaufman (cbr2702) Assigned to: Mark Doliner (thekingant) Summary: gaim 2.0-beta2 away-chooser Initial Comment: The new away message chooser for gaim 2.0 is really nice. There are two ways I think it could be nicer, though. 1) Because I have my buddy list at the bottom of the screen, the chooser pops up with empty space at the top of the area and a down scroller at the bottom. Only two of several away choices are visible without scrolling. http://sccs.swarthmore.edu/~cbr/files/gaim-dropdown.jpg 2) The dropdown is convenient in the case where I want to set the away message to something that happens often. But when I want to set the away message to something new that I don't think I'll use again it would be nice to be able to type that into the away box and press enter. You can currently do this, but there are three problems: - It makes it be an "available" message if you were currently available. If you want to keep letting people set available messages that way, you could add this functionality with an "away:" tag at the beginning of what you put in the box. So if someone puts "away: capture the flag" they get a message set to "capture the flag" with type "away". - It makes puts the new message in the popup list. The popup list is most useful if it contains the away mesasages used most often. These messages are usually one time use. - It would be nice if there was a way for people to (optionally) configure exactly which and how many messages would be in the popup list. Jeff ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Luke Schierer (lschiere) Date: 2007-04-17 15:40 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=28833 Originator: NO As we are closing this tracker, please submit any feature request that is still valid to http://developer.pidgin.im. Thanks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Kevin Wilson (selander) Date: 2006-04-13 07:50 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=398533 I actually really liked the old away chooser. It was nice to not have to unhide the buddy list just to change my away status when they were in separate windows, and since I more often than not only use messages once, it was very convenient that they weren't remembered in a list. I rather miss the buttons at the bottom of the buddy list window, as well. Maybe I'm just not too fond of change, but these are a few first impressions :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Etan Reisner (deryni9) Date: 2006-03-20 22:03 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=516184 1) That is slated for removal, it was added as a test and no one really liked it. If gaim is iconifying it is because you have the Iconify on Away plugin loaded, it probably shouldn't be triggering when you become Available, and if it is that should be fixed, but if you don't want that to happen at all unload that plugin. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Eptiger (eptiger) Date: 2006-03-20 21:53 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1257561 I have a couple of other away chooser comments to add: 1) I don't like that when I change from away to available that it keeps my old away message in there and forces me to manually erase it. I think that when you change the status that it shouldn't remember the previous one in there. And it would be nice if it didn't minimize as soon as you went Available from Away mode, but this isn't as big a deal to me. 2) Sometimes the icon in the status bar stays as away mode even when I'm in Available mode. Haven't really noticed a pattern with that so not sure when it occurs, but it does happen. Other than these things I've been loving beta 2 :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Laager (rlaager) Date: 2006-02-21 02:50 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=156487 Re: off-by-one bug: Sadrul has noticed this as well. I think he said it had something to do with the messages being on a separate line. We should probably figure that out. :) Re: number of statuses to show... I'm assigning this to Mark for his thoughts. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Jeff Kaufman (cbr2702) Date: 2006-02-20 08:06 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1023346 RE 1: What is strange about this is that while that may be the goal, it's not even doing that; it's off by one. Right now my away message is set to "fishbowl", and clicking results in the above ("sleep") one being under the cursor and highlighted. This seems to depend on where in the box I click, as if I click near the bottom of the component it pops up "correctly". RE 2: I've been using Gaim 2.0 for a few weeks now, and beta2 for about a week. The main reason that the tracking seems to be failing is that while it displays six messages, I use nine regularly. This majorly thrashes, resulting in my almost never being able to choose the one I want. I also reasonably often use one time messages, and they only add to the problem. If there were a preference to determine how many choices showed up in the list that would help. Or gaim could be even smarter and try to detect how much it was thrashing and make the list longer to compensate. So if a person is almost always going down to "saved" on the list, keep making it bigger, though probably not bigger than 20 or 15. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Laager (rlaager) Date: 2006-02-18 13:22 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=156487 1. Known issue with GTK+. It's not necessarily a bug, as that behavior is necessary to ensure that the item highlighted in the menu is what was shown in the combo box. In other words, in your screenshot, you had "here" showing in the global status selector, then you clicked to get the menu and "here" is highlighted. If you don't like this, look at http://gaim.sf.net/gtkrc-2.0 for the appears-as-list workaround. 2.1 If you want it to be an away message, choose "Away" and then type into the status box. Magic tags aren't very discoverable, might conflict with someone who really wants "away: foo" as their message, and is almost impossible to deal with from an internationalization standpoint. 2.2 The statuses that appear in the list are chosen based on how recently they were used and how often they are used. How long have you been using Gaim 2.0.0beta2? It might take a little while for that tracking to provide best results. 2.3 I think if the issues in 2.2 are solved, this would be less of a concern. I'm not sure though. A setting for the number of statuses to show might be useful. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=350235&aid=1434173&group_id=235 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Gaim-features mailing list Gaim-features@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gaim-features
