Feature Requests item #1180621, was opened at 2005-04-11 06:45 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by lschiere You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=350235&aid=1180621&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: Dan (clockwerx) Assigned to: Gary Kramlich (amc_grim) Summary: Usability: Selective Chat Window Flashing (By Group) Initial Comment: Situation: I'm coding and I'm talking to a group of people. Only three of them are people I want to talk to, the others are annoying fools I would love to stab in the face for taking me out of the zone. What's Wrong With That: Random people are stupid and annoying. As a developer, I don't want to talk to them. As a human being, I'll talk to them and probably try to get in their pants. Since ideally I'm keeping my social and business life seperate, this would be invaluable. Solution: Whitelisted group flashing. Disabled flashing for everyone, except for a certain group I nominate. If any of these speak, I'm pestered. Otherwise, I don't care overly much. Perhaps even tie this to away messages -> so setting "busy - work" triggers one behaviour, "away, miserable" triggers another. Related: #1177371 - Chat Window Flashing What do we think? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Luke Schierer (lschiere) Date: 2007-04-20 11:01 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: Jason Sloderbeck (jsloderbeck) Date: 2006-06-23 13:30 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=774493 For corporate chat use on Windows (we have both jabber and silc), I can tell you that the inability to allow for chat conversations to flash is *desperately* needed in the community. I dug up this sourceforge account which I've never posted with before just to humbly request that the chat window taskbar flashing be added as an option (checkbox in preferences) -- my company has have several employees on various teams paying for Trillian just for the single feature of taskbar notification for chat windows. I know the assumption is that chat windows are constantly bustling and the notification would be annoying, but it varies widely among gaim users. For example, my employees are all IT multi-taskers and we can't go into 4 different chat rooms (engineering, development, support, emergency, etc.) every 5 minutes to see if anyone's typed anything (usually they haven't), which means there's no way for us to really send out important, timely alerts, to employees. I realize the systray can flash for some of these events, but that is completely unnoticeable and not specific on > 800x600 resolutions, as far as everyone I've ever spoken with is concerned. As another feature requestor reported, "Chat isn't very useful if you always have to go back to check to see if there are new messages." This is true for a very large number of gaim users -- note that every single IRC or chat client I can think of has a way of signaling activity in a given channel (mIRC turns the tab red with the option to flash taskbar, BitchX has notification options, etc.) Thanks so much for your time. GAIM is a great example of a useful, highly adaptive open source project/product and the new beta is very impressive! Note: I am cross-posting this comment to other identical/related requests that have been made over the last couple of years: 1204451 - Incoming chat messages do not flash taskbar button. 1180621 - Usability: Selective Chat Window Flashing (By Group). 1432949 - Option to enable taskbar flashing for MSN multi-chat. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Dan (clockwerx) Date: 2005-07-02 23:47 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=197121 Stupid SF.net dupe. Additional thought on representing this sort of thing in the UI: Contact is dimmed in the list on a scale. Clear, bright, etc, they can talk to you normally. A bit dimmer, they can't make stuff flash / beep / whatever. Even more faded out and kind of hard to see, they can't open new windows and get told to sod off, you're busy. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Dan (clockwerx) Date: 2005-07-02 23:24 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=197121 Cool, it's been handed out. Perhaps this is a bit of feature request creep, but... To set up everything from scratch, it'll really annoy me. I'm lazy and don't do these things - I don't even have any custom away messages for GAIM, because i'm too busy doing everything else at the same time to set them up. Right now in GAIM you can drag and drop people/groups about. This is a great feature, for list sorting. I've just been looking at stuff like http://www.dontclick.it/ which has made me start thinking about alternative ways to do UI stuff. Sub idea: The buddy list has an "i'm annoying" section. You get to be able to pick up and drop in the box/section to muffle the flashing / message notification / etc. The satisfaction, as an end user, of being able to feel like I'm *actually* picking someone up and throwing them into the "ssh" section would be a good stress relief. See: http://www.getfridged.com/gaim-ui.png ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Dan (clockwerx) Date: 2005-07-02 23:23 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=197121 Cool, it's been handed out. Perhaps this is a bit of feature request creep, but... To set up everything from scratch, it'll really annoy me. I'm lazy and don't do these things - I don't even have any custom away messages for GAIM, because i'm too busy doing everything else at the same time to set them up. Right now in GAIM you can drag and drop people/groups about. This is a great feature, for list sorting. I've just been looking at stuff like http://www.dontclick.it/ which has made me start thinking about alternative ways to do UI stuff. Sub idea: The buddy list has an "i'm annoying" section. You get to be able to pick up and drop in the box/section to muffle the flashing / message notification / etc. The satisfaction, as an end user, of being able to feel like I'm *actually* picking someone up and throwing them into the "ssh" section would be a good stress relief. See: http://www.getfridged.com/gaim-ui.png ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=350235&aid=1180621&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. 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