Feature Requests item #950790, was opened at 2004-05-09 09:20 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by lschiere You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=350235&aid=950790&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: None Group: None >Status: Closed Resolution: None Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: David Christian Berg (dcberg) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: renaming buddies (F2, on the fly) Initial Comment: I'm a gnome user, and don't know about other filemanagers, but in Nautilus, you press F2 to rename a file. I'm so much used to this behaviour, that everytime, I want to rename a Buddy, I use the same key and am surprised that nothing happens. It would be great, if via F2 one could easily rename buddies directly in the list. If that isn't easy to implement, then F2 could pop up the "Alias" menu item, though I think it would be more intuitive to be doing this on the fly... I also think that the "Alias" item should be replaced with "rename" because it is easier to understand. Hope there are no objections to these suggestions. David ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Luke Schierer (lschiere) Date: 2007-04-20 10:56 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: Eric (hiware) Date: 2004-05-15 03:55 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=954560 How bout kill two birds with one stone: When F2 is pressed the Add Buddy window appears, but instead of adding it's an editing prperties window. Then yall could fight out what textbox gets the focus and auto highlighted: screen name or alias. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Luke Schierer (lschiere) Date: 2004-05-10 15:05 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=28833 *shakes head* i tend to disagree if only because "rename" on winaim really does edit the screenname, whereas "alias" is unique to gaim. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: David Christian Berg (dcberg) Date: 2004-05-10 14:26 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=947691 @ Christopher: You actually can change that behaviour for the conversation window in the accels file. @ Luke: C'mon it's a lot more intuitive than alias. As a user I only care about what _I_ see. Nobody will actually think he or she is changing the name of the buddy for everybody, anyway. So basically I want the "rename" menu item to change the "alias", that's right, but I don't think it matters. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Luke Schierer (lschiere) Date: 2004-05-10 14:11 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=28833 "alias" and "rename" would not be the same thing even if rename were a menu item. "rename" would change the screenname, "alias" is something entirely different, it provides a local-only nickname for the buddy. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Christopher Nehren (cnehren) Date: 2004-05-10 14:03 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=494220 Ahh, you mean when the buddy list has focus. I thought you meant using F2 when the conversation window had the focus. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: David Christian Berg (dcberg) Date: 2004-05-10 13:45 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=947691 I have acutally read the bindings before, but I tested it, and f2 doesn't do anything when you have a buddy selected in the list. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Christopher Nehren (cnehren) Date: 2004-05-10 13:36 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=494220 This isn't possible without breaking another "used elsewhere" keybinding: F2 is currently used to enable/disable timestamps. I _never_ disable timestamps, but I'm sure that someone does. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=350235&aid=950790&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
