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------- Additional Comments From sknauert wesleyan edu 2006-09-02 03:53 -------
What I'm thinking of an away manager in the sense like the AIM official client
4.x series. Message management that isn't intrusive. If the default was to make
the title the message and save in the message history, you could have the exact
same functionality you do now.
However, the main issue here I feel is that kopete was designed for very short
away messages. Messages over (32 I think) chars don't fit in the dialogue box
without scrolling (I especially don't like that the LineEdit widget moved into
the Set Status Message button for 0.12, sorry) so that you can't easily
preview, edit, spellcheck, etc. your away messages.
I think the ideally the next version should move back into a dialogue box, use
a TextEdit widget (automatically transforming \n into <br> though more HTML
support would be nice via the same optional toolbars already used in chat), let
the whole box be resizable (though default to a sane size for new mesages, say
four lines 32 chars wide), and have a checkbox for saving the message. If you
typed a short message and didn't bother to uncheck or give it a title, you'd
notice no difference from the 0.11 series. Similarly, adding the ability to
right click with a rename/ delete from your history from the Set Status Message
button would be a welcome subtle feature you didn't have to use. Truthfully if
my skills were better I'd fire up QT designer and try to do some mockups, but
hopefully my description might allay some fears if not help inspire some devs.
A good optional addition would be a set of away message controls in the away
tab of Behavior which basically repeat the functionality described above but
put it all in one window for both convenience and the fact some people actually
come up with a number of potential away messages at once. It would be nice to
be able to load them up and view past messages in entirety without actually
going away. Remember, this isn't GNOME, we can have more than one way to do
something, and have it be a good thing.
Sorry for the rant.
As far as the persistent away message bug, if you have a number I'll go vote
for that feature also.
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