On 21/10/13 05:54, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 8:54 PM, Tommaso Cucinotta <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Comments are welcome of course, as always.
>
> Only that this looks cool :)
If people like it, as I do, we could fine-tune it to get it in for the next
major release ?
Let me recap current behaviour:
a) launch the buddies pane
b) enter login id, enter, a dialog pops up asking password (all these are
skipped once u save your credentials -- still to be added to the patch)
b1) your buddies show up in the buddies pane
c) double-click one of your buddies, you get your buddy-dedicated chat file
opened in ~/.lyx/chats/<buddy-id>.lyx, plus a chat line on the bottom where u
type
d) everything u type in the chat bar, as well as received from remote, is
appended to the buddy specific chat file and auto-saved
e) if u want to shut down net activity, click on disconnect (u can click on
connect to get back on-line)
f) you can alter your availability/status from the status drop-down box
(unimplemented yet)
No capability whatsoever to manage buddies, for now you can do that with Pidgin
or other clients.
Among todos, a few nice icons to highlight online/available vs
offline/unavailable buddies to be added in the buddies pane.
Chat files are regular lyx files. You can also edit them while chatting or
while off-line, or delete them etc. They're supposed to keep history (I know,
problems should they grow unbounded, but for now...). You can copy/paste back
and forth across your local files and the chat files/buffers.
Text is tx-ed to the other end as exported LaTeX segment corresponding to the
paragraph you type, then imported back using Buffer::importString(). You can
send maths, tables, formats, headings, but if you try to send external material
such as a picture, the file is NOT tx-ed. Also, it should all be ok with
default doc settings. If u change them (notably, the doc class), then u can
create inconsistencies between the local and remote views (perhaps styles that
make sense here but not there etc...). For now, text is auto-tx-ed when you
type Enter, but this can be changed if deemed useful.
Any comments, given the above ?
T.
