Feature Requests item #1154026, was opened at 2005-03-01 01:43 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by lschiere You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=350235&aid=1154026&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: win32 Group: None >Status: Closed Resolution: None Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: Tom Stroman (tstroman) Assigned to: Daniel Atallah (datallah) Summary: Warn when posting large clipboard contents. Initial Comment: System: Gaim 1.1.4, Windows XP SP2, Athlon XP 2000+, 1GB PC133 This is a pretty avoidable problem, but I discovered that attempting to paste several megabytes of text into a conversation causes the program to jump to 100% CPU usage and lock up for at least an extended period of time. It's possible that after a few minutes it might have finished "thinking" but overall it would be useful if gaim could determine in advance whether the clipboard contents are too large to be sent as an IM anyway and prompt for paste confirmation before proceeding. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Luke Schierer (lschiere) Date: 2007-04-20 11:00 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: Daniel Beardsmore (uilleann) Date: 2005-03-10 03:55 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=473078 One would assume -- hope, at least -- that gaim is aware of each protocol's various message length limitations. For example, ICQ OSCAR uses (and I'm trying to remember here from my Macintosh ICQ days) approximately 1024 characters maximum for online users, and 512 characters maximum for offline users (stored on their server). IRC has a limit of 40 words or something, it's been even longer since I read that detail in the RFC :) If you follow the behaviour of Mac AIM, I think it tells you to piss off if you try pasting more physical text than can be sent at once (different I think to the limited once it has generated all the HTML and calculated the length of that). Mac ICQ simply chops off the end of what you're pasting to fit in the message length. Which is actually really annoying as it makes it so hard to send a long piece of text as several messages, you have to work out where it cut it off, and go back and copy it again starting from the unsent part. But I would imagine that, for a message that's too long, gaim would automatically split it across multiple messages (the split performed humanly, i.e. don't chop words in half). If it's going to need, say, 10 messages or more, ask the user if they really want to send that much text, tell them it will need x messages. A meg of pasted text might need a LOT of messages, that would alert them. Thing is, I'd imagine this check would be done on send, not on paste, so you'd still get a crash first :( As an aside, Mac ICQ also displays a cute little progress bar (wrong widget for the job, but hey...) in conversation windows, showing you the percentage of available message space used, so you know how much more you can type. It would be cool to see that in gaim, especially for IRC, as I tend to have very involved conversations using long sentences and have no idea where IRC is going to truncate the message :) But that's probably more a plugin-based improvement... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Daniel Atallah (datallah) Date: 2005-03-09 21:26 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=325843 I'm inclined to call this a feature request because it seems like more of a user error than a gaim bug. That and I can't think of any non hackish way to do anything about it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Daniel Beardsmore (uilleann) Date: 2005-03-02 18:38 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=473078 (*awards the original posting Score 4: Funny*) I assume you are pasting in this content by *accident* :) Of course, computers should try to be tolerant to innocent mistakes. Firefox for example does not always copy something I asked it to copy (grr!) so that could easily result in previous clipboard text being pasted into gaim. It's more funny if you paste it into an IRC channel by mistake though :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=350235&aid=1154026&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
