On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 1:56 AM, Aleix Pol <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
Okay, I just applied/installed that patch using abs, opened a chat, and used a script to spit ktp-text-ui's CMakeLists.txt file at me through GTalk, and this is what happened: http://local.lasath.org/scroll_bug_back.png For some reason, the only thing that really seems to come close to fixing it is setting the cacheBuffer to 9001 (on my machine at least - doesn't anyone else still have this bug?). >> >> >> 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... > Hmm, if we use a KNotification, will we be able make it so that by default it only plays a sound? >> >> >> 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. > Good news on that front, I THINK I figured out a way to get the TextField to have focus. Still needs KWin's focus stealing prevention disabled for it to work. >> >> >> 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 >> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > KDE-Telepathy mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-telepathy > _______________________________________________ KDE-Telepathy mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-telepathy
