On 19/04/2009, Joshua J. Berry <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 10:09:57AM -0400, Roman Byshko wrote: >> Hi, >> >> after adding new contact list view/model pretty much has changed for >> me in Kopete. I liked it. Thanks for the developers. >> >> However there is still big room for improvement and customization. >> Since (as stated in code) main developer was Roman Jarosz I contacted >> he, but then we decided it would be better to discuss it here. >> >> So, my proposals are: >> >> 1. Option not to draw contact icon if no contact picture/avatar available. > > I'm a little confused what you mean by this -- are you suggesting that if > there > is no buddy icon available for a metacontact, the icon is removed? Would > you > then have some metacontacts with icons, and others with just a blank space?
See screenshot: http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/611/ >> 2. If Status Title is empty we'll just substitute ordinary status >> (e.g. Away/Online etc.) > > I'm fine with doing this for "Away", but I think "Online" would be too much > clutter, personally. By doing it for "Away" but not "Online", you can more > easily visually differentiate between the two states. Ok, but it wont be consistent..(i.e. to draw there Away/Not Available but not Online) The problem is to put something in that place. I do not see any other useful information that can't be there. Any suggestions? >> 3. Customization of contact list token color. User can set different >> font colors for the token. This should help him visually recognize >> different token. Roman J. said that we already have color for idle >> contact. Then my suggestion would be to use this color to override >> token colors. > > What is a "token"? With the new contact list you can form item in the contact list in the Layout tab of Contact List settings. Each item is called token. I.e. Display Name, Status Title etc. > >> 4. Setting base and alternating colors for the contact list. Roman J. >> said that it's already globally configurable. But I cannot find it in >> systemsettings -> Appearance - colors. Where it is? > > Look in the "View" colors. (You can pick which set of colors to edit by > opening > up the drop-down list above the list of colors.) > >> It would be nice >> if our settings could just override this settings. Defaults will be of >> course system wide settings. > > Why do you want to override the system-wide color settings? Well, because person like me want to have different settings in Kopete :) Maybe other user also want it. > -- Josh > > > -- > Joshua J. Berry > > "I haven't lost my mind -- it's backed up on tape somewhere." > -- /usr/games/fortune > _______________________________________________ kopete-devel mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kopete-devel
