On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Lasath Fernando <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey everyone, > > Okay, so I tried using the chat plasmoid exclusively for a little while to > see what the annoyances/show stoppers are. Currently it boils down to: > > 1. Scrolling Bug - I know that various 'fixes' have been applied over > time, but with the latest master and Plasma 4.10 Beta, it's still there and > renders the plasmoid effectively useless once a conversation reaches a > certain length. > We need to go through all the crude hacks that we have and decide which is > the least evil and apply it. We can leave it until plasma people come up > with a magic fix (which I don't think is likely since it doesn't look like > ListViews were ever really designed with scrollbars in mind). > About the scrolling, can you see if the attached patch to kde-runtime helps with your problem? I happen to have these modifications and I'm unsure why :D. If it happens to help you, I'll go test them throughly to push them to 4.10. I just tested and scrolling works fine here. > > 2. No notification - Yes the little bubble appears when you have unread > messages, but just being red doesn't make it stand out enough. We need to > either > - animate it (bounce/blink/demand attention) > - play a noise > - create a normal notification as well (passive - users can use global > hotkey or clicking on the widget to respond). > I wouldn't want a global notification there, but a sound being played could help. Maybe it would be interesting to see how others do that... > > 3. Lack of Hotkey - The whole point of this originally was to be able to > respond to people quickly and return to work with minimum hassle. > I've actually worked on this today and I'll open up a review request soon. > It's almost solved - I've got the next conversation to pop up, but it > doesn't have keyboard focus. I (by which I mean someone else ;-) needs to > find a way to bring the popped out dialog to the front and give it focus. > I agree, having a hotkey that opens the next unread chat would be awesome and it's terribly needed. > > The rest are all things minor details that show lack of 'polish' but > aren't really hindrances. > > -- > Cheers, > Lasath > > _______________________________________________ > KDE-Telepathy mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-telepathy > >
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