gnome-shell does not care about Empathy. Both use Telepathy as the backend, the only special casing for Empathy in the shell is making sure to not show "You got a message" notifications because the shell will take them over.
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Onyeibo Oku <[email protected]> wrote: > On 01/20/2011 06:20 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: >> >> >> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 7:47 AM, Onyeibo Oku <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> After a chat session with a friend while running Gnome-shell, I >> decided to illustrate my previous suggestions. I have attached a >> screenshot of my chat (with his permission) here: >> http://picturepush.com/public/4899595 >> >> My observations once again: >> 1. Its hard to differentiate between my text and his. >> 2. The gradients behind the text are supposed to fix the problem in >> #1 but they don't do that effectively. They add to the visual chaos. >> >> My Suggestion ... see: >> http://picturepush.com/public/4899601 >> 1. I think coloured and/or bold text will do it better >> 2. Feature requests: Add the fading to the top of the text scroll >> as the text leaves the chat dialogue. Make the Icon more prominent, >> indent text to the right if necessary, to allow an enhanced icon. >> If it sticks out, COOOOOL!. >> >> >> I'd file a bug in bugzilla so that someone working on gnome-shell can >> address it. > > Okay, I'll try that > > Although I'm not *quite* sure if this is gnome-shell or >> >> empathy (I assume you;'re using empathy?) > > Its definitely gnome-shell (front-end) but yeah, ... its using empathy at > the rear. Which reminds me, there seems to be a 'battle of wills' going on > between the two ...about who gets to be seen. Empathy wants to show its > face sometimes and when it succeeds there is usually a quirky performance in > Gnome-shell. So ... I really don't understand what the deal is between > Gnome-shell people and empathy hackers. I like the front-end ... it removes > the clutter (floating dialogues add to visual madness!). However, the > front-end looks dead and robotic without the emoticons and colours. > > How about trying to fix it? >> >> We can help. >> > Wow ... I'm just one Architect/designer/cg-artist who likes to play with > computers. I only know enough coding to automate tasks in my work. C, C++, > and C# is simply not my area. > >> sri > > Onyeibo > _______________________________________________ > gnome-shell-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list > _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
