On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 8:33 PM, Aleix Pol <[email protected]> wrote: > Oh! I forgot the questions! > Please note that a big IMHO is implicit in all my answers. > > On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 5:55 PM, David Edmundson > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Contact List Applet >> >> The Contact List applet has been doing nothing for a while now, and >> it's time to get it sorted and finished. >> I want to discuss what we actually want to do. Then once we have a >> general consensus I'll turn it into bugzilla lists and get started on >> it. >> >> Who here currently uses it? I don't really. My preferred method of >> starting chats is homerun via krunner. >> >> So, brainstorming: >> >> - Should it be a popup-plasmoid so it can be docked in a panel. What >> would the icon be? > > Definitely yes! > I'd try to merge it with the presence plasmoid. We need a reason for having > them both at the same time on the panel. > >> >> >> - If it's in a vertical panel that's wide enough should it show the >> list properly? > > That's easy enough to do, when you have the plasma applet implementation > there you'll figure it out, i'd say. > >> >> >> - Should it use Plasma icons for presence? > > Should it be an option not to get integrated? > >> >> >> - Do we want to have a search bar? Always shown? or with a button to >> toggle it? Or just instantly if you start typing. > > I'd say let's see prototypes > >> >> >> - Do we want to show groups? What's a good way to use a TreeView in QML. > > We can use QML sections. It fits perfectly imho.
There's a problem with QML Sections, a contact can legitimately be in 2 groups - or 2 sections. QML Sections does not support this. The model then becomes a lot more complicated. (reminder, please review my awesome grouping model!) > Also like I said in my big e-mail, it's an interesting place where to cut > down information and integrate with Activities. > >> >> >> - Should it have all the different sort/group-by options the real >> contact list has? In a "toolbar"? or in the plasma config? > > Probably not. If at all, in the plasmoid config. > >> >> >> - Do we want call/video/send file buttons? > > We want a good delegate. But you don't want all buttons visible for all the > contacts. > Maybe it also depends on the plasmoid size. > Also we should know how far we want to go with this so that we can say how > far the contact plasmoid has to go. > >> >> >> - Should we have it so that in the config you specify what groups you >> want to show? I think I might use it if I had a list of just people in >> my "friends" group and that's it. > > Yes I agree, I discussed this above. > Or if you're at the "work" activity, I'd like to have the "bluesystems" > group available. > I guess. > > >> >> >> >> Please comment and include your own ideas and suggestions. >> _______________________________________________ >> KDE-Telepathy mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-telepathy > > > Also it would be good to find out more imaginative ways to display contacts. > For example having the name _and_ the photo [1] can be redundant, so > somebody could try different things. In one of the examples for KPeople that > I made, I implemented the contact list in a grid (sweetpeople) where the > name would only be available on hover, since you can already recognize > someone by their picture. What I mean with that is that there's space for > improvement and we should try to go a bit past the "same old". > I kinda agree, but I think we need to get the "same old" finished and working before we try doing anything too fancy & new. Though I think the grid, using your confusingly named example as a starting point, would be an interesting thing to try out.. maybe we could put it on kde-look or something and get some feedback. Dave _______________________________________________ KDE-Telepathy mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-telepathy
